A 20-year old Colorado State football player was going door-to-door at his part-time roofing job in Loveland, Colorado, when he was ordered to the ground at gunpoint by a 65-year old resident in the neighborhood.  Loveland Police told 9News.com there is no evidence that the player, or his 27-year old co-worker, did anything wrong when Scott Gudmundsen called police and said there were two “Antifa guys” in neighborhood that he was going out to “confront” them. 

When police arrived, Gundmundsen was dressed in fatigues and holding the two roofing company employees on the ground at gunpoint. 

Gundmundsen was arrested and charged with two counts of felony menacing and two counts of false imprisonment. 

Police have not made the names of the victims public, nor has Colorado State confirmed the identity of the football player. A letter was sent to CSU students on Friday night to address the incident, signed by Colorado State President Joyce McConnell, athletic director Joe Parker and football coach Steve Addazio. 

“Our student is a young man of color, while the perpetrator is white,” a portion of the letter said, via 9News. “Regardless of what investigators learn or reasons the perpetrator gives, we know this: Our student got up Thursday morning, worked out with his team, then showered, dressed, and went to work. Hours later, he was facing a stranger with a gun and hearing police sirens that had been inexplicably called on him. Given what we have seen happening in cities across this county, we know all too well that this encounter could have proceeded very differently.” 

Both Loveland Police and Colorado State University have expressed their concern for the victims’ well-being and indicated that the full range of support services will be made available to help them process the scary incident in the weeks and months to come. Gundmundsen is scheduled to be in court on June 18 and a man who identified himself as the perpetrator’s son has offered an apology while noting his father is “currently undergoing treatment at a mental health facility.” 

“Our sincerest thoughts go out to the two salesmen and we apologize to them and their families for the actions of our father and wish them well,” Scott Gundmundsen’s son, Stanley Gundmundsen,  wrote in a message to 9News.

An unidentified Colorado State football player was placed at gunpoint by a 65-year-old man who wrongly accused him of being a member of Antifa, the nebulous far-left movement President Donald Trump has with minimal evidence blamed for inciting violence during recent nationwide protests.

Scott Gudmundsen called police on the Colorado State player and the player’s part-time coworker, then told them to get to the ground and pointed a gun at them, according to a report from 9News.com.

Gundmundsen was arrested and charged with two counts of felony menacing and two counts of false imprisonment. 

His son, Stanley Gundmundsen, has since apologized for his father’s actions.

“Our sincerest thoughts go out to the two salesmen,” he told 9News. “We apologize to them and their families for the actions of our father and wish them well.”

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Accusations of extremist activity on the right and left have been widespread over the past few weeks as protests against police brutality have in some regions been accompanied by violent sideshows and looting. As tensions ratcheted up, Trump last week blamed Antifa for the clashes and vowed to designate the network, which is considered more shared political idea than centralized organization, a domestic terrorist group. Antifa is short for “anti-fascist.”

The presidential pressure campaign has raised the profile of Antifa and perhaps inspired the president’s base to hunt out possible perpetrators.

Colorado State sent out a letter to its student body Friday night detailing the incident with its football player, writing, “Regardless of what investigators learn or reasons the perpetrator gives, we know this: Our student got up Thursday morning, worked out with his team, then showered, dressed, and went to work. Hours later, he was facing a stranger with a gun and hearing police sirens that had been inexplicably called on him.”

TROY – A member of a “fatigue clad group” stopped by Troy Police near Sunday’s protest against police brutality has been charged with a felony weapons count as the overall investigation remains ongoing, police said Monday.

Police identified the man as Noah Latham, 22, of Fort Drumm. He faces one count of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, police said.

Additional charges are possible against other members of the group, police said.

In a release, police said the apprehension of the group averted “what may have become a violent encounter.”

Police detained the men in an area where more than 11,000 people gathered Sunday to march against police  brutality and  systemic racism, the largest such gathering in the region. They gathered at Riverfront Park to listen to speakers at a rally that took on a bloc party-type atmosphere and also protest at the Troy Police Department.

The incident began Sunday afternoon at about 4:30 p.m. as police received intelligence that a group of suspicious people were downtown wearing fatigue type clothing. The group made its way up Ferry Street to the City Station garage on Sixth Avenue, police said.

Troy Police and other officers soon stopped the group “in the interest of keeping citizens safe” and soon found members of the group were armed with handguns, police said.

Police then took the group in for questioning on their motives and whether the weapons were legally possessed,  police said.

Three vehicles belonging to the group were also towed for the investigation and are awaiting the execution of search warrants, police said.

“The quick action by officers that apprehended the group as well as the members, both in uniform and plain clothes that were conducting surveillance and providing the security for the demonstration, are commended for averting what may have become a violent encounter that day,” a police release read.

Latham was arraigned in Troy City Court, police said. His custody status wasn’t immediately available early Monday afternoon.

Correction  1:42 p.m.: Police initially released the incorrect degree of charge against Latham. He has been charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, not third-degree.

More on Sunday’s Troy march:

A Turkish court has accepted an indictment charging the father of NBA player Enes Kanter with “membership in a terror group”, the country’s official news agency reported.

Enes Kanter is best known in NZ for his friendship with Kiwi basketball star and former Oklahoma City teammate Steven Adams, who together formed a centre-court duo known as the ‘Stache Brothers’.

Prosecutors planned to seek the conviction of his father Mehmet Kanter. They were after a prison term of five to 10 years at trial, Anadolu Agency said.

It’s unclear when the trial in western Tekirdag province would begin.

Enes Kanter, who now plays for the New York Knicks, is a follower of a US-based Turkish cleric who the government accuses of masterminding a failed military coup in 2016.

Cleric Fethullah Gulen has denied the allegation, but tens of thousands of people suspected of ties to his network have been arrested or fired.

The elder Kanter, a professor, was purged from public service after the coup attempt and detained for five days last summer.

Anadolu said the indictment alleges he contacted some 120 suspects with alleged links to Gulen, including dozens who were said to have communicated through an encrypted messaging application.

Enes Kanter has been a vocal critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His Turkish passport was cancelled last year.

Prosecutors charged him in December with insulting the president in a series of tweets. They want to try him in absentia and have him sentenced to more than four years in prison, if he is convicted.

“Keep my family, innocent people in your prayers,” the basketball player tweeted Monday with the hashtag #DictatorErdogan. His Twitter account is withheld in Turkey.

Under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of the coup, Turkey has arrested more than 50,000 and sacked some 110,000 people alleged to have infiltrated state institutions for Gulen. The government said the crackdown was needed to fight alleged acts of terror.

 – AP