Report: Heckler Pulled Gun on Jahlil Okafor in Philly in October
While Jahlil Okafor plays his first game after Boston police are looking into the fight he was involved in on Thanksgiving Eve, Keith Pompey reports that it wasn’t Okafor’s first nightclub run-in with a heckler. [The other person involved in the fight in Boston claims it was over girls, not a heckle.] The recent incident, however, wasn’t as dangerous as the first one:
“At a Philadelphia nightclub in October, sources said that Okafor exchanged words with a heckler while with teammates. As he and his teammates left the club, a source said, the heckler pointed a gun to Okafor’s head outside the establishment.
A source said the incident was witnessed by federal officers, but there is no known official report of the incident.”
Pompey’s report comes from “five sources who spoke to The Inquirer independently on condition of anonymity,” no word on whether they were players or not. But a lot of this is pretty confusing. Federal officers saw it but nothing was done? Why? Unless it was in Old City and those “federal officers” were national parks people from Independence Mall, you’d think something would be done about someone pointing a gun to someone else’s head.
It now makes a bit of sense as to why Okafor was so strongly on the defensive here – more so than even on the court (HAYOOOOO). But with all of the Boston stuff and the whole gun to the head thing, maybe some Netflix and chill might be better suited for post-game unwinding.
UPDATE: Hey, my Old City guess was right: According to CSN, U.S. Park Rangers were on the scene and the gunman fled.