NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — An R. Kelly fan was charged on Monday with threatening Brooklyn federal prosecutors, who secured the disgraced R&B singer's conviction and threatened to "storm" their office.
Christopher Gunn, of Illinois, was arrested on Saturday and appeared in Chicago's federal courthouse on Monday, where a judge ordered him to be held in custody pending a detention hearing later this week, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Prosecutors are seeking to have him be extradited to New York City to face charges. He faces up to five years in prison.
According to the criminal complaint, Gunn said in a YouTube livestream video titled "Get Real Familiar" on Oct. 4, 2021, a week after Kelly's sex trafficking trial ended, that he wanted viewers to "get real familiar with this building I'm about to pull up and show to you. …We know who is going to stick to everything that I told you, which is that if Kellz goes down, everybody's going down."
"You see this building right here? That building is located right outside of the courthouse where R. Kelly was being prosecuted at," Gunn allegedly said nearly two minutes into the video. "It's the first building on the corner. That is the United States federal prosecution office."
Prosecutors said Gunn also held up a photo of the U.S. Attorney's Office at Cadman Plaza East in Brooklyn.
With the photo still on the screen, Gunn allegedly said, "That's where they at. That's where they work at. We're going to storm [their] office. We're gonna storm [their] office. We going to storm Jane Doe-1], Jane Doe-2], and Jane Doe-3]. We're going to storm [their] office. If you ain't got the stomach for the shit we bout to do, I'm asking that you just bail out."
The complaint adds that Gunn named three of the assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted Kelly.
Gunn, who prosecutors said attended at least one day of Kelly's trial, then allegedly showed a clip from the 1991 movie "Boyz N The Hood" with a character about to be fatally shot.
The charges against the 39-year-old comes as Kelly faces sentencing on Wednesday after he was found guilty in September of all nine criminal counts, including racketeering.
Prosecutors said in a memo filed earlier this month for the "I Believe I Can Fly" singer to be sentenced to at least 25 years behind bars for sexually abusing women and girls.
Kelly used his "fame, money and popularity" to systematically "prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification," prosecutors wrote in the filing.
"He continued his crimes and avoided punishment for them for almost 30 years and must now be held to account," prosecutors wrote.
Kelly’s lawyers have argued that he deserves only a maximum of about 17 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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