Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Robert Tilson Simmons Jr., 34, was arrested early this morning after allegedly pointing a gun at a stranger behind a bar and then trying to hide the gun from a police officer.
At about 2 a.m., Gainesville Police Department officers responded to the 1700 block of W. University Avenue, where the victim said a man had been yelling at his girlfriend on the phone because they had been on a party bus together and she had left him at the bar. The victim said he told the man, “I don’t know why she left you,” and the man became upset, yelled, “Don’t patronize me,” pulled a pistol from his cross-body sling bag, and pointed the gun at the victim. The victim said he was scared and walked away…