R. Kelly ‘superfan’ charged with threatening federal prosecutors

An R. Kelly “superfan” has been charged with threatening the federal prosecutors who gained a conviction in opposition to the fallen R&B star at his Brooklyn sex-trafficking trial, authorities mentioned Monday.

Christopher Gunn, 39, is accused of threatening to “storm” the US Legal professional’s workplace in Brooklyn in a YouTube video final yr, and allegedly named and menaced the three feminine prosecutors on the helm of the case, in line with a federal warrant.

“I would like y’all to get actual acquainted with this constructing I’m about to drag up and present you,” he mentioned on the video on Oct. 4. “Imma present you precisely the place have been gonna be going.”

Prosecutors mentioned the overzealous fan was declaring Cadman Plaza East in Brooklyn, the place the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Jap District of New York has workplaces.

“That constructing is positioned proper outdoors the courthouse the place R. Kelly was being prosecuted at. It’s the primary constructing on the nook,” he mentioned. “That's the US federal prosecution workplace. That’s the place they at. That’s the place they work at.

“We’re going to storm they workplace,” Gunn allegedly mentioned earlier than naming the three prosecutors and threatening he was going to “storm” them, too.

Brooklyn Federal Courthouse
Gunn can resist 5 years in jail if convicted.
Gregory P. Mango

Prosecutors mentioned Gunn additionally posted a clip from the 1991 film “Boyz N The Hood” exhibiting 4 armed thugs leaping in a automotive and heading for a taking pictures.

“[I]f you ain’t received the abdomen for the s–t we ’bout to do, I’m asking that you simply simply bail out,” Gunn is heard saying, in line with prosecutors.

Kelly, 55, who was convicted in September on racketeering and intercourse trafficking prices, is because of be sentenced within the case in federal court docket in Brooklyn on Wednesday.

Gunn, who goes by the dame “DeBoSki” on-line, allegedly attended at the least in the future of the disgraced former crooner’s trial final yr.

He was arrested Saturday by federal brokers in Illinois and remanded into custody following his arraignment in Chicago on Monday.

Prosecutors will try and extradite Gunn to Brooklyn. He faces as much as 5 years in jail if convicted, prosecutors mentioned.

It's unclear if Gunn truly is aware of Kelly, whose actual title is Robert Sylvester Kelly. His subsequent court docket date is Wednesday.

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