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Boston Red Sox pitcher Brian Johnson carjacked in Florida

Brian Johnson, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, was out with friends in Cocoa Beach, Fla. early Friday morning around 2 o’clock when they were carjacked by a man with a loaded gun.

The thief, Johnathan Oshaun Gould, was later arrested and charged with “carjacking, aggravated assault, persons engaged in a criminal offense having weapons, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon and violation of felony probation,” per Florida Today.

Gould approached Johnson and his friends at a convenience store. He pulled up behind them, began yelling at one of the passengers before approaching the driver of the vehicle, Thomas Carrigan, and yelling, “I will kill you, give me you (expletive) keys.