The incident reportedly started when sophomore receiver Donaven Tennyson listed his phone for sale on a website and arranged to meet with a possible buyer in the parking lot of a nearby Chili's on Monday night. Tennyson told police that his phone was stolen at the meet-up, but he found it being offered for sale just hours later on the same site where the phone had originally been posted.
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Tennyson then created a fake account on the site and expressed interest in buying the phone, arranging another meeting for later that evening, this time in the parking lot of a Target. He brought along two teammates, freshman Tae Daley and redshirt freshman Frank Coppet, and the trio allegedly took a pellet gun with them, telling police it was
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