UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint while getting coffee in California on first day of US tour

British rock band Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight on Monday when they had stopped for coffee in California on the first day of their US tour.

The band — consisting of frontman Alex Rice, guitarists Rob Knaggs and Henry Young, bassist Oli Dewdney, drummer Al Greenwood, and keyboardist Ben Mack — touched down in California ahead of their first gig in Sacramento on Tuesday.

But after stopping at a Starbucks in Vallejo — nearly an hour away from their show — at 9 a.m., the band’s van was ransacked by a group of armed men.

The band’s tour manager bravely confronted one of the robbers, who in turn pulled “out a gun,” according to footage of the ordeal that was filmed from inside the gas station

Explore More