Trial starts for R. Kelly manager accused of calling in fake threat to prevent viewing of sex abuse film

Donnell Russell was accused of claiming over the phone that someone with a gun was planning to fire on the crowd watching Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” series in December 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of R. Kelly’s manager opened Tuesday on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz told jurors that Donnell Russell made a terrifying brief phone call in December 2018 from his Chicago home to the theater,  today!

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