Police: Man pulls gun at softball game because granddaughter didn't play
Dispatch: "Lincoln County 911."
Caller: "We've got a parent that just pulled a gun at a softball game! He's leaving the Chandler softball field right now!"
That frantic 911 call came just minutes after a girls' little league softball game ended in Chandler Tuesday.
Video: Man accused of pointing gun at people during little league softball game
When one Davenport player didn’t get put in during a game in Chandler, police said her grandfather wasn’t happy.
They said Troy Gibbs, 45, started fighting with the Davenport coach and other parents.
He then went to his car and came back again to yell at the coach. Police said when another parent stepped in, Gibbs pulled out a gun and pointed it in his face and at children in the parking lot.
“We have our few arguments, disagreements, here and there at these games that we respond to, but we’ve never had nothing of this magnitude,” Chandler Police Chief Matthew Mattheyer said.
“Davenport and Chandler have always had a little thing about rivals, but our girls after the game did the walk-through, clapped their hands, good game,” president of the Chandler Softball Association Kari Hulsey said.
“I think the next morning is when it really hit that, you know, the things that could have happened,” Hulsey said.
Hulsey said Gibbs almost hit her when he tore out of the complex trying to get away.
KOCO 5 News tried to get his side of the story, but he never returned our call.
Police said Gibbs said he was sorry, but the apology comes too late.
“The damage has been done,” Mattheyer said.
“This is not behavior that’s acceptable to any of us -- Davenport, or Chandler, or any of the softball leagues in Lincoln County,” Hulsey said. "This is far, far away from what we teach our girls.”
Gibbs was arrested and is facing charges of pointing a firearm and disturbing the peace, but police said he could be facing even more charges in the future.