Powers said at a Thursday press conference that Mixon was seen carrying his legally-owned gun on surveillance footage but did not fire a shot.
According to a statement by Mixon’s agent Peter Schaffer, the Cincinnati stud has faced a barrage of threats after his address was released to the public.
‘Joe became the victim of multiple threats of physical harm and harassment on social media and at his residence in Cincinnati,’ Schaffea neighbor’s claim that a gun was fired from Joe Mixon’s residence at high school teens who were playing ‘Nerf wars’ alongside his property, but it’s unclear who pulled the trigger.
Schaffer’s statement says Mixon stopped a person from discharging a firearm.
‘He witnessed an individual carrying what appeared to be a rifle racing directly towards his property as the individual continued to bark instructions.When another individual discharged a firearm, Joe interceded to stop the person discharging a firearm.
‘It is now understood that the young adults were playing a game which involves running around neighborhoods performing paramilitary movements with plastic guns designed to look like real weapons.’
According to a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office incident report obtained by TMZ , several juveniles were playing a game called ‘dart wars’ with toy Nerf-style guns near the property when the shooting occurred
In the report police say that two of the teens participating in the game allege that the one of the other players, a 16-year-old boy, had run alongside the house with the toy gun when he was shot at with a real firearm (pictured)
Shalonda and a 34-year-old man were reportedly in a black Honda Accord that was spotted leaving the property shortly after the shooting took place