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LARAMIE — A University of Wyoming football player is facing felony charges after allegedly pointing an unloaded handgun at two people during an incident last week.

Allen Smith III, a freshman defensive back, was booked into the Albany County Detention Center on Friday on two counts of aggravated assault and battery with the threat to use a drawn deadly weapon, according to the jail log. He had his initial appearance in Albany County Circuit Court later that day. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 15, according to court documents.

Wyoming coach Craig Bohl said in a statement Tuesday that Smith was suspended indefinitely Friday. Smith didn’t travel with the team for last week’s game at Tulsa.

According to an affidavit filed with the court, a Laramie police officer was dispatched around 11:46 p.m. Thursday to help the University of Wyoming Police Department investigate a possible assault that occurred earlier that day at the Verge Apartments. The officer spoke with two alleged victims, who told him they drove Smith to an apartment there so he could drop off some laundry.