The people who chased and shot at former Denver Broncos player Josh Reynolds and his two friends last year mistook the trio for people who’d used counterfeit money to purchase $250,000 worth of cocaine in an earlier drug deal, according to court records.

The newly unsealed court filings explain why as many as a dozen conspirators worked together to surveil, pursue and shoot at Reynolds and his friends during a miles-long car chase through Denver on Oct. 18 that prosecutors previously called a “calculated and carefully coordinated assassination attempt.”

Reynolds, who now plays for the New York Jets, was shot in his left leg and the back of his head. One of his friends, at the time a Colorado professional rugby player, was shot in the back. A second friend was wounded by shattered gla

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