A Morgan Wallen concert attendee was arrested in Missouri Friday after he allegedly threatened on social media to shoot Kansas City Chiefs players Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes.
The concertgoer, identified as Aaron Brown of Winchester, Illinois, was charged with a felony for making a "terrorist threat" against "two individuals, who were members of the Kansas City Chiefs organization," at Wallen's concert at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City Friday night, according to a press release from the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.
The prosecutor's office did not name the two Chiefs players in its statement.
However, before Wallen took the stage that night, the country music artist was spotted at the stadium with tight end Kelce, quarterback Mahomes, and defensive tackle Chris Jones.
Kansas City Police detectives and intelligence analysts monitoring the Friday concert came across a post on X, formerly Twitter, that allegedly threatened to "shoot" two Chiefs players.
Court records, obtained by Billboard, stated that the threat was posted under the X account @gooeybag, though the account seems to have been shut down since the incident.
User @gooeybag wrote that if Wallen "brings out [redacted] or [redacted] I'll take the f**kin shot," according to the documents.
According to the prosecutor's office, the concert was postponed for 40 minutes for Kansas City police officers to find and arrest the suspect.
After being detained, Brown was charged with a Class E felony of making a terrorist threat in the second degree. Prosecutors asked for a $250,000 cash bond, but a $15,000 bond was given.
In an investigative interview, Brown's girlfriend revealed that he and his friends often use "burner" accounts to "tweet stupid stuff."
She clarified that Brown supports a rival NFL team and sent the tweet while traveling to Kansas City for the Wallen concert.
The girlfriend told investigators she told Brown to remove the post after realizing that the post was "more serious," but he replied that nobody would read it anyway. The couple later decided to delete the tweet.
According to Brown's girlfriend, she was certain he was not serious about the threat.
Brown and his girlfriend started getting calls and texts on their phones from the police while they were at the concert, informing them that they needed to talk to them.
After being arrested at the show, Brown -- who has no prior criminal history -- admitted to investigators that posting the threat was "a stupid, stupid, stupid mistake."
He also said that he had never threatened anyone on social media before and that he had no idea why he had done it.
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