British band Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday outside San Francisco while on tour in the United States, the group reported.
According to a statement provided by the six-member group, the band stopped for breakfast at a Starbucks in Vallejo, Calif., at 8:45 a.m. local time when the robbers stole stage equipment, laptops, passports, and more. It is said that personal belongings and other valuables were stolen. A passerby inside the store alerted the band that someone was vandalizing their tour van. When band members tried to intervene, the gunman brandished a gun.
“Someone opens the door and says, 'Does anyone have a white Sprinter van?' Because you're being robbed right now,” drummer Al Greenwood said. . BBC.
“So we all ran screaming. Lauren, our tour manager, was a little ahead of me, and someone else ran past us in the opposite direction and said, 'Be careful. Please, he has something.” ”
“I really thought I was about to see someone get shot because it took a while for the tour manager to realize,” she added.
Video taken from inside the Starbucks store shows the gunman brandishing a gun at the group's tour manager as he approaches the van. The robbers then take items from the van, and the band members and onlookers hide inside.
Singer Alex Rice told the BBC: “If someone pulls out a gun, of course you run away.” “But what struck me about it was the resignation. People around us weren't panicking at all. It seemed like a very routine event.”
The band called the police, but they didn't come and instead were told to file a report online.
The indie group, which has had two Top 10 albums in the UK, continues its plans to perform in Sacramento on Tuesday night and is scheduled to return to the area for another show on Saturday. They recently played a few shows on the East Coast without incident.
