The people who chased and shot at former Denver Broncos player Josh Reynolds and his two friends last year mistook the trio for people who’d used counterfeit money to purchase $250,000 worth of cocaine in an earlier drug deal, according to court records.
The newly unsealed court filings explain why as many as a dozen conspirators worked together to surveil, pursue and shoot at Reynolds and his friends during a miles-long car chase through Denver on Oct. 18 that prosecutors previously called a “calculated and carefully coordinated assassination attempt.”
Reynolds, who now plays for the New York Jets, was shot in his left leg and the back of his head.