Rich McKay
(Reuters) – Missouri prosecutors on Saturday charged a rural Illinois man with making “terrorist threats” on social media, saying he planned to shoot two Kansas City Chiefs football players as they attended a country concert. .
The man, Aaron Brown, 23, of Winchester, Illinois, was arrested Friday night at a Morgan Wallen concert at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City that also featured two members of the Kansas City Chiefs football team concert.
There were no reports of violence at the event.
Brown told police it was a “stupid, stupid, stupid mistake,” according to NBC affiliate KSHB (OTC: ), adding that he deleted the post on social media site X before actually arriving at the concert .
The football players were not named in a news release from the Jackson County, Missouri, prosecutor’s office.
The concert was delayed for 40 minutes after the Kansas City FBI office obtained a waiver from X to find Brown’s name and cellphone number and police went to detain the man, the NBC affiliate reported.
Police called Brown and he told them where he was sitting with his girlfriend.
He was charged with a felony count of “second-degree terroristic threats,” according to the prosecutor’s office. His bail was set at $15,000 early Saturday.
Officials did not say whether he was free on bail late Saturday.
