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2 killed, 2 hurt in Phoenix strip club shooting
Published December 27, 2010
| Associated Press
Print Email Share Comments (9) Text Size PHOENIX – Phoenix police say a second man has died after a gunman opened fire inside a strip club.
Sgt. Tommy Thompson says a 28-year-old man walked into the Great Alaskan Bush Company shortly before midnight Sunday and started shooting, hitting four people before he ran out of ammunition.
Thompson says people inside the club wrestled the man to the ground and held him until officers arrived.
The first victim is identified as a 34-year-old man who died from gunshot wounds after being rushed to a hospital. Police have not released information on the second person who died, other than he is an adult male.
Another man and a 20-year-old woman were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Thompson didn't have details on their conditions.
Police also responded to a west Phoenix strip club early Saturday after a security guard shot a patron who later died at a hospital.
Published December 27, 2010
| Associated Press
Print Email Share Comments (9) Text Size PHOENIX – Phoenix police say a second man has died after a gunman opened fire inside a strip club.
Sgt. Tommy Thompson says a 28-year-old man walked into the Great Alaskan Bush Company shortly before midnight Sunday and started shooting, hitting four people before he ran out of ammunition.
Thompson says people inside the club wrestled the man to the ground and held him until officers arrived.
The first victim is identified as a 34-year-old man who died from gunshot wounds after being rushed to a hospital. Police have not released information on the second person who died, other than he is an adult male.
Another man and a 20-year-old woman were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Thompson didn't have details on their conditions.
Police also responded to a west Phoenix strip club early Saturday after a security guard shot a patron who later died at a hospital.
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How did the clubs respond? One installed a metal detector and the other one raised their prices. The club that installed the metal detector eventually went out of business a few years later (Dockside Dolls).
The club that just raised their prices (Doll House) weeded out the young/poor from coming in. The Doll House is still in business today although with $50/song LDs and a bad area I am not a fan of the club.
Because these mental midgets haven't found out that there is nothing worth dying for in a SC, or worth killing for.
happened last night east of cleveland..
Two teens shot in Wickliffe nightclub
Monday, December 27, 2010, 3:08 PM
By Michael Sangiacomo, The Plain Dealer
WICKLIFFE, Ohio -- Two teenagers were wounded late Sunday in a shooting at a Teen Night at the Evolution Ultra Lounge.
Police said the shootings occurred around 11:40 p.m. at the nightclub, 28611 Euclid Ave. Someone fired three times into a crowd of about 300 teenagers. A boy was hit in the leg and a bullet grazed the back of a young girl.
The girl was taken to Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and the boy was taken to Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights. Police said both victims were still in the hospital this morning, though their conditions are unknown.
The shootings followed a fight inside the club. Police said they are interviewing witnesses and hope to identify the shooter, but are not getting much cooperation.
"There was an altercation near the bar and security officers ejected a bunch of kids," Wickliffe Police Lt. Pat Hengst said. "Either one of the ejected kids or a friend of his returned with a semiautomatic handgun and fired three shots into the crowd. Then he went outside and fired more shots before taking off.
"Police were there within a minute of the call -- they just happened to be close by -- but the shooter got away," he said.
Teen Night is held every Sunday for boys and girls ages 13 to 17.
the people that caught him and held him down should have just killed him.
Police: Arizona strip club shooter fired at random
PHOENIX — A man accused of opening fire in a Phoenix strip club, killing two people and injuring three others, told police that he had planned the crime and chose the victims at random, according to a court document released Tuesday.
Gavin Macfarlane, 28, of Scottsdale, is accused of shooting four people with a .38-caliber revolver and physically attacking a fifth person at the Great Alaskan Bush Company shortly before midnight Sunday. Patrons tackled and beat him after he ran out of ammunition.
Macfarlane's mug shot shows him with a torn shirt; a bloody nose, chin, and forehead; and the beginning of two black eyes. Macfarlane was jailed on a $2 million cash bond, and it was unclear whether he has a lawyer.
In the Maricopa County Superior Court document released Tuesday, Phoenix police wrote that Macfarlane had been a previous patron of the club and that he told investigators he planned the attack.
"Gavin stated that he had brought the weapon with him as part of a plan he had formulated in his mind," police wrote. "He then said he reached a point where he made the decision to go out to the parking lot and obtain his weapon from his vehicle, then return to the club with the intention of shooting the first people he came in contact with."
Police wrote that Macfarlane said he knew what he did was wrong "but stated he felt compelled to commit this offense."
"He said the victims were not specifically targeted, but rather were randomly targeted," police wrote. "He stated he stopped shooting because he ran out of ammunition and added that he may have continued to shoot additional people had he possessed more ammunition."
Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump said Macfarlane made various conflicting statements about why he wanted to shoot people at the club.
"I can't go more into the motive of a guy and I'm not going to try to theorize or summarize his interview," Crump said. "It's not for me to try to summarize what someone else was thinking."
Adam Troy Cooley, 34, a security guard at the west Phoenix club, was shot and killed. A club patron, Antonio Garcia, 20, also died. A 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, both at the club with Garcia, were wounded. Macfarlane hit a fifth man in the face with his gun and punched him when he ran out of bullets, police said.
Damian Hartze, who has owned the strip club since 1997, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Macfarlane paid for a couple of dances on the night of the shooting: one in the topless part of the club and another in the all-nude section.
One of the dancers told Hartze that Macfarlane said he recognized her tattoos from a trip to the club a few years ago, but the other dancer said Macfarlane didn't respond when she asked him questions and didn't smile when she tried to joke with him.
The club's bartender told Hartze that Macfarlane ordered one beer but didn't even take a sip before he left to get his gun.
"He just went out of the house to cause destruction and kill people," Hartze said. "This guy was just nuts."
Hartze said Cooley had worked at the club for 10 years and was a model employee, a great friend, and well-liked by everyone. He said Cooley had a longtime girlfriend and no children.
Everyone at the club is shaken up by the shooting and Cooley's death, Hartze said. "Everyone is taking it pretty hard," he said.
Online court records show that Macfarlane pleaded guilty to assault in Glendale earlier this year and was sentenced to one day in jail, probation and ordered to attend a counseling program as part of a plea agreement. He was cited in 2002 for aggressive driving and lost his driver's license that year for failure to comply on a civil traffic offense.
(This version CORRECTS that woman shot was not a dancer and CORRECTS capitalization of suspect's name, per updated official information.)