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CFB player reportedly held at gunpoint after man mistakes him for member of Antifa
By SDS Staff
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A college football player was reportedly held at gunpoint after being mistaken for a member of Antifa.
According to an ESPN report, the Colorado State football player, whose identity was not released, was on the job Thursday for a roofing company when the incident occurred. Scott Gudmundsen, 65, called police to report that two men wearing face masks going door-to-door in his neighborhood. Gudmundsen told police he planned to confront the two men (the football player and his co-worker). According to the report, police found Gudmundsen, wearing fatigues and armed with two pistols, holding the two men to the ground at gunpoint. Gundmundsen was arrested and booked on felony charges.
Per the police report, the CSU player and his co-worker were wearing blue polo shirts with their company’s name on them and white face masks while surveying the area for roof damage after a recent hail storm.
Colorado State University president Joyce McConnell, athletic director Joe Parker and head football coach Steve Addazio addressed the situation in a letter to the university community. The letter does not identify the football player “out of an abundance of respect for the privacy and well-being of the student-athlete and their family” but mentions that “our student is a young man of color, while the perpetrator is white.”
CSU’s letter shared that the player came away from the incident physically unharmed.
“We have been in touch with this student and his family and can reassure our community that both the student and his co-worker are physically unharmed and safe,” a portion of the letter reads. “Mentally and emotionally, the student and his family are drawing on tremendous reserves of resilience, but nonetheless recognize that this was a horrific experience. CSU Athletics, the Division of Student Affairs, and the Office of the President are working together to ensure that the student has all the resources he needs, both now and in the months to come.”
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