Two university students were among a gang of men who threatened three people in a car with a sawn-off shotgun, a jury heard.
The incident, at the KFC drive-through restaurant off Narborough Road, Leicester, happened the day after the De Montfort University students' friend had been stabbed, Leicester Crown Court was told yesterday.
Nigel Kromah (21) and Joshua Ojo (21) both deny possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
John Hallissey, prosecuting, said: "These two men were part of a gang who threatened people with a sawn-off shotgun."
He told the court that on January 18 last year, the defendants' friend, Bami Idowu, was stabbed near De Montfort University.
The next day, Hazel Jackman, who was driving, and two friends went to the KFC restaurant and noticed "some unusual activity".
Mr Hallissey said: "She noticed a man behind her car and he was looking through the rear windscreen."
Another man, who was wearing a motorcycle helmet, then asked them to open a window.
The man spoke to Hazel Jackman's friend – referred to only as Nizzi – in the back seat and asked him if he lived at De Montfort University's Victoria Hall.
The court heard that the car was then surrounded by a number of men, with one brandishing a sawn-off shotgun.
Mr Hallissey said two other KFC customers had seen one of the men open the boot of a black Ford Fiesta and produce the shotgun.
The pair said he approached the car and ordered the occupants to get out.
Mr Hallissey that one of the group then looked at Nizzi in the back seat and said: "Sorry, mistaken identity."
The witnesses called the police after leaving the area.
When officers recovered the Ford Fiesta, they found a sawn-off shotgun in plastic bags in the boot of the car.
Mr Hallissey said one of the bags had Kromah's fingerprints on it and that he was also picked out as the man holding the shotgun by a witness.
He said Ojo's fingerprints were found on three of the plastic bags, on a number of documents in the glove compartment and on the lid of the boot.
The jury was told that both Kromah, of Dorchester Way, Harrow, north London, and Ojo, of South Street, Raynham, Essex, knew Bami Idowu, the man who had been stabbed the day before.
The trial continues.
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