ARLINGTON, Texas – A Muslim student at the University of Texas-Arlington who reported that she was stalked and threatened by a white man recently admitted that she lied about the incident.

The UT-Arlington student told school officials around 9 a.m. last Friday that she was followed by a white man with a camouflage baseball hat in a white Ford pickup for six miles on the way to school. She said when she parked at the university, the man yelled “watch the f**k out, we’re killing all of you” while waving a handgun outside her car window, then drove away, according to the Dallas Morning News.

The student, Ambreen Sharif, posted to Facebook about the encounter:

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“I have felt no closer to death before,” she wrote. “I also closed my eyes and said Laa ilaha ill Allah, Mohammudur Rasool Ullah.

“He could have very easily put a bullet straight in my face. He could have very easily killed me,” she wrote, according to the Arlington Voice.

She also posted that “Im (sic) not going to generalize and say all Americans are like the ones that followed me today but I have to say that others like him will use the Chapel Hill incident of today and continue to do such hate crimes.

“All we can do is protect ourselves and continue to pray to Allah that this country and its people learn to accept Muslims,” she wrote, according to the Daily Caller.

Sharif was referencing an incident at a University of North Carolina condominium complex last Tuesday in which Craig Hicks, 46, allegedly murdered Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

Authorities are investigating to determine if the incident was a hate crime, though there’s little indication that was the case, as Hicks’ wife and neighbors allege the incident stemmed from a long-running parking dispute, according to the Daily Caller.

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In Arlington, school officials issued a campus-wide bulletin about the alleged stalker, and the university’s Muslim Student Association president Amneh Jafari issued a statement encouraging Muslim students to walk in pairs or with a security escort at night as a precaution, The Shoehorn reports.

By the end of the day, however, Sharif admitted that her report was a lie, though it remains unclear whether the student will be charged with filing a false police report, The Dallas Morning News reports.

She told school officials she wasn’t even at school at the time of the alleged confrontation.

School officials didn’t provide a motive for the student’s false report, but the Daily Caller contends “the student’s reference to the North Carolina shooting suggests that her goal in making the false claim may have been to draw awareness to anti-Muslim bias.”

University officials had little to say about the episode.

“We take these issues very seriously,” UT-Arlington President Vistasp M. Karbhari said in a statement. “The safety and security of all UT-Arlington students, faculty and staff is our utmost concern.”