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For real. I was hanging out at home, not planning on playing basketball tonight, but my friend called me around 7 and asked me to come out to the park and ball with him, so I went. There weren't too many people out there today because of the heat and the fact it's Friday, so the game that was going on was a mix of adults and kids. There was this one older guy (late 30s with two kids) who was apparently not from here playing in the game, his kids included.

I wasn't there for most of the game, but from what my friends told me he started off being friendly, but slapped this one fat white dude (a friend of ours) who was playing with us, and threatened to hit one of the kids (not his own) that was playing.

There was a picnic from a church group from Newport News (aka Bad Newz, though these people were obviously not) right next to us, and a couple of them got next with us. Anyway, by the time the game ended, we were all anxious to play him to show up that asshole, but as soon as it ended, he decided to go home. Some words were exchanged on his way to the car, especially with the two Newport News boys, but the situation seemed to have ended when everyone came back to play the next game.


The asshole told his kids to get in the car and started running towards it and pulled out a glock. Now, there's a fenced-in (you can't see through the fence) tennis court in between the parking lot and the basketball court, so nobody on the court saw it right away, but the church group and some of the girls right outside of the courts did and yelled out "he's got a gun" and started booking it. Everyone started running different directions, but we were pretty sure he was looking to get the two Newport News guys. I ran around the tennis fence to make a lap back to the parking lot, but the two guys ran sort of the same direction, unfortunately. Luckily the guy wasn't dumb enough to start shooting, but with all the kids (there's also a park for kids adjacent to the court, with a wooden tent-like structure in between where the church camp gathering was) and the shopping centers right next by, the cops were on the spot real quick. He got in his car and pulled out of the parking lot and got no father than 50-100 ft before a cop car pulled him over screaming at him to put his hands out the window and a dozen marked and unmarked cars (some with plainclothes) were on his ass. Shit turned into quite the spectacle. I'm just glad the asshole got his comeuppance.



TL;DR: Some idiot at a park with kids pulled out a gun and started chasing people before leaving and quickly getting arrested.