Six Florida Gators football players face potential discipline through the student conduct process for their roles in an on-campus confrontation in May that featured an Airsoft gun painted to look like an AR-15, a frying pan, a defensive tackle escaping a dorm room through a window, and a Gainesville-area gambler nicknamed “Tay Bang” who later called out “bitch ass football players” on Facebook, per a University of Florida police report.
That confrontation, first reported by Matt Head of Jacksonville-based First Coast News on Wednesday, happened on the night of May 28 at the Keys Residential Complex — a frequent on-campus home for athletes, and a hub for those who live off campus but hang out with friends on it — and came to the attention of police via a 911 call from a witness who called to report suspicious activity near Flavet Field and told police of groups of men dressed in black who looked like gang members, and a weapon that appeared to be an assault rifle.