2 Dead, 1 Other Critical In Nightclub Shooting www.privateofficer.com
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DETROIT MI Nov 29 2008 — Trouble is commonplace at a popular downtown nightclub that was the site of a double homicide early Friday morning, said a neighbor and a disc jockey who works there.
“Nothing that happens at that club surprises me,” said Curtis Lloyd, 64, who lives down the street from the Bleu Room Experience on Woodward Avenue near Grand Circus Park.
“There’s always some kind of argument; at 3 or 4 in the morning you’ll hear them out there with their boom boxes, and hollering and carrying on. And it’s both men and women doing the cussing. I wish that club wasn’t there; I wish they’d put it somewhere else.”
Police still were searching Friday for the man who shot into a crowd of about 40 people who were milling around outside the club. The 2:13 a.m. shooting left two men dead and a third man critically wounded.
“The club was closing, and people were leaving,” Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said. “One man was throwing up gang signs. A black (Dodge) Charger pulled up in front (of the club), and a front passenger threw a liquor bottle that hit (an 18-year-old patron) in the face. A rear passenger then produced a gun and opened fire.”
A 21-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were killed, and a third man — the 18-year-old who was hit with the bottle — was in critical condition Friday after taking a bullet in the right shoulder, Tate said.
Police did not release the victims’ names, although Tate said he didn’t think they lived in Detroit.
Gang rivalries may have sparked the violence, Tate said. Witnesses told investigators that the gang signs being flashed were those of a Highland Park street gang.
Friday’s incident is at least the second fatal shooting outside a downtown Detroit nightclub this year. In February, a man who had been kicked out of the Plan B nightclub on Congress returned and shot a bouncer in the back. Other bouncers fired back at the man, killing him. The bouncer who was shot recovered.
Another fatal shooting took place near the Bleu Room Experience in 2006, the night before the Super Bowl at Ford Field. The case was never solved.
The Bleu Room Experience — which is often called “Club Bleu” — is housed in the former Telenews Theatre building at 1540 Woodward. The club opened on New Year’s Eve in 2000, and disc jockey Ty Jones said he’s often seen altercations.
He said he was at the club Friday, but left before the violence.
“It gets pretty rowdy,” said Jones, 35 of Knockin’ Music Entertainment. “You don’t usually see guns, but there are a lot of arguments. You’ve got a bunch of people in their 20s drinking, and it gets kind of crazy. Youth and alcohol don’t mix.”
The owners of the club could not be reached for comment.
Anyone with information about the shooting should call Detroit Police homicide investigators at (313) 596-2260; or the confidential tip line Crime Stoppers at (800) 773-2587.
“Nothing that happens at that club surprises me,” said Curtis Lloyd, 64, who lives down the street from the Bleu Room Experience on Woodward Avenue near Grand Circus Park.
“There’s always some kind of argument; at 3 or 4 in the morning you’ll hear them out there with their boom boxes, and hollering and carrying on. And it’s both men and women doing the cussing. I wish that club wasn’t there; I wish they’d put it somewhere else.”
Police still were searching Friday for the man who shot into a crowd of about 40 people who were milling around outside the club. The 2:13 a.m. shooting left two men dead and a third man critically wounded.
“The club was closing, and people were leaving,” Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said. “One man was throwing up gang signs. A black (Dodge) Charger pulled up in front (of the club), and a front passenger threw a liquor bottle that hit (an 18-year-old patron) in the face. A rear passenger then produced a gun and opened fire.”
A 21-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were killed, and a third man — the 18-year-old who was hit with the bottle — was in critical condition Friday after taking a bullet in the right shoulder, Tate said.
Police did not release the victims’ names, although Tate said he didn’t think they lived in Detroit.
Gang rivalries may have sparked the violence, Tate said. Witnesses told investigators that the gang signs being flashed were those of a Highland Park street gang.
Friday’s incident is at least the second fatal shooting outside a downtown Detroit nightclub this year. In February, a man who had been kicked out of the Plan B nightclub on Congress returned and shot a bouncer in the back. Other bouncers fired back at the man, killing him. The bouncer who was shot recovered.
Another fatal shooting took place near the Bleu Room Experience in 2006, the night before the Super Bowl at Ford Field. The case was never solved.
The Bleu Room Experience — which is often called “Club Bleu” — is housed in the former Telenews Theatre building at 1540 Woodward. The club opened on New Year’s Eve in 2000, and disc jockey Ty Jones said he’s often seen altercations.
He said he was at the club Friday, but left before the violence.
“It gets pretty rowdy,” said Jones, 35 of Knockin’ Music Entertainment. “You don’t usually see guns, but there are a lot of arguments. You’ve got a bunch of people in their 20s drinking, and it gets kind of crazy. Youth and alcohol don’t mix.”
The owners of the club could not be reached for comment.
Anyone with information about the shooting should call Detroit Police homicide investigators at (313) 596-2260; or the confidential tip line Crime Stoppers at (800) 773-2587.
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