British indie-rock band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint in Vallejo, California
A touring British indie rock band claims they lost their personal belongings when armed robbers attacked their van while they were drinking coffee at a Starbucks in Vallejo, California, on Tuesday morning on the first day of their U.S. tour. equipment.
band posted about the incident on their Instagram account. Cellphone video shows a man removing items from a van, with the person filming the video yelling at the band members to get out of the car, before shouting: “Call the police! Call the police!”
The video appears to be of the Starbucks and gas station located at 199 Lincoln Road. Vallejo to the west.
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“Robbery at gunpoint just 10 minutes into US tour,” the text in the video reads. “Stopped for coffee. Someone ran in and said someone had hit a van. Ran outside and tried to stop it and found masked men ransacking the van. Started yelling and they had guns drawn.”
In the video, one of the van robbers can be seen brandishing a gun, reportedly at the tour manager. Two members of the band’s touring party then ran back to the Starbucks while people inside the coffee shop could be heard instructing people to stay inside. In addition to swearing, the victims mentioned items they saw taken, including bags and laptops.
according to Story published by BBCThe band, whose two albums have reached the UK top 10, “lost their passports, stage equipment and personal belongings during the incident”, which happened at around 8.45am
The band were due to kick off their US tour at San Francisco’s Kilowatt on Monday night, but flights out of the UK were canceled, resulting in the show being cancelled. Rescheduled for this Saturday evening at the church. Delay means sports teams will actually start their tours Tuesday night all-ages show at Goldfield Trading Post in Sacramento. The band was en route to Sacramento when the robbery occurred.
“The police response was to ‘file an online report.’ They lost a lot of their personal gear, but they didn’t get their instruments, so they drove to Sacramento to perform tonight,” the band said in an Instagram post.
CBS News Bay Area reached out to the Vallejo Police Department about this incident but has not yet received a response.
While the post tried to appear somewhat light-hearted, the band seemed shocked and shaken by what had happened to them.
“It’s honestly shocking how resigned everyone seems to be to this. ‘This actually happens,'” the post concluded. “At 9 a.m. in a gas station Starbucks somewhere. Wild.”
