A former National

Football League player who lives in Fayette County has been arrested for

pointing a gun at his wife during an argument at the couple's south Fayette

home.

Gregory Lloyd,

37, a former defensive standout with the Pittsburgh Steelers, is charged

with simple battery, pointing a gun at another person and cruelty to children

in the second degree.

The arrest

warrants against Lloyd were taken out by his wife instead of a police

agency. According to the warrants, which were signed by a magistrate court

judge, Lloyd choked her and put the gun to her head during an argument

Dec. 30 between 3 and 4 a.m.

The victim

is also seeking a temporary protective order from the court that would

keep Lloyd from her presence.

"He told

me that one of us was going to end up in the hospital and the other in

jail," the victim wrote in her petition for a temporary protective

order.

The following

day, Lloyd told her he was going to leave the home and as she watched

what he was doing with the gun, he told her "to go ahead and call

the police, that he didn't have a clip in the gun and that any other man

would have put me six feet under," the petition states.

The victim

also said in the petition that her only injuries were from scratches to

her neck. Lloyd also owns several guns and "has a very bad temper,"

the petition stated.