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LAS VEGAS — One of two memorabilia dealers O.J. Simpson is accused of robbing testified Thursday that the former football star burst into a hotel room with a handful of other men, including one who pointed a gun in his face, and, amid a chaotic scene filled with screamed threats and accusations, carried off hundreds of items.

Bruce Fromong, who testified he has known Simpson since the early 1990s and worked with him before selling and promoting memorabilia, said he was at a Las Vegas hotel room on Sept. 13 expecting to meet an anonymous buyer when Simpson burst into the room with the others and shouted that the items were his.

“O.J. was screaming, ‘This is all my s—-. This all belongs to me. You stole this from me. Let’s pack up. Let’s get out of here,”‘ Fromong said.

Simpson and two co-defendants face robbery, kidnapping and other charges. The hearing, scheduled for two days, is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to take them to trial.

Fromong, the first witness called, said the confrontation lasted no more than five or six minutes and ended with the group stuffing hundreds of items into pillowcases and leaving the hotel room.

Some of the items he had brought, Fromong testified, had nothing to do with Simpson but were lithographs of football great Joe Montana and items signed by baseball stars Duke Snider and Pete Rose that he thought he could sell.

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