DETROIT (WJBK) - It happened outside Cheetah's strip club on Eight Mile Thursday night. Shots were fired. Two men were wounded, one fatally.
"I heard the gunshots, and the first thing I did was fell on my floor," said neighbor Cynthia Walker. "When I looked out, I didn't see anything, but I knew something had happened."
"It was just an altercation that I understand happened and circulated into the neighborhood. It's too bad that it has to come to that. I don't know why," said Cheetah's manager Josephine Mistretta. "As far as what happened the other night, we were cooperating with authorities 100-percent and we're doing what we can, but as far as anything else, we have no comment."
There have been numerous acts of violence around Cheetah's in recent years. In one case, a customer drove over and killed a valet driver. In another, a valet driver shot and killed a would-be carjacker.
"That's what's going to happen when you have the clientele that's hanging out at that bar," Walker said. "I as a citizen … am really sick of it."
Neighbors complain about liquor bottles and used condoms littering the area. They also say the noise from the club is especially disruptive.
"Like twelve o'clock on the music is loud in there, and then once the club is closed, they come out (to) their cars. (They're) drinking, (they're) smoking, women, just loud noise all night," said neighbor Ricky Thomas. "You find condoms, liquor bottles, they just don't care about your property."
People in this well maintained and stable neighborhood are calling for more police patrols and want the city to keep an eye on the club.
"It's a nuisance, but it has not always been like that," said Walker. "Recently, it has gotten out of hand."
When they say "it has not always been like that" I wonder how far they are thinking back? I remember that place when it was divided into two small strip clubs, one called the Odd Frog Pub. That had to be 30 years ago! I don't remember getting the kind of service I get now at my favorite place, La Chambre, though! These are the Good Old Days!!