Norma Jeans
10 Custom House Ave
Baltimore, MD 21202
Baltimore 2AMer
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
A 29-year-old man was fatally shot inside the Norma Jean’s strip club on The Block, Baltimore’s red light district, early Sunday.
Police said that patrol officers heard gunfire coming from the club on Custom House Avenue around 1:18 a.m. Officers went inside and found a 29-year-old suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No other details about the shooting were disclosed.
Clubs on The Block, located near police headquarters and around the corner from City Hall, faced a potential 10 p.m. curfew last year after then-Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said rowdy last-call crowds were draining police resources. State lawmakers backed off such an across-the-board closing time, instead passing a bill that called for security measures to be implemented and on file with the city liquor board.
Clubs that don’t abide by the rules could be forced to shutter by 10 p.m. Liquor board officials did not respond to be requests for comment Sunday morning.
According to posts on its Facebook page, Norma Jean’s had been closed for a period of time and reopened in mid-July.
Police said that patrol officers heard gunfire coming from the club on Custom House Avenue around 1:18 a.m. Officers went inside and found a 29-year-old suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No other details about the shooting were disclosed.
Clubs on The Block, located near police headquarters and around the corner from City Hall, faced a potential 10 p.m. curfew last year after then-Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said rowdy last-call crowds were draining police resources. State lawmakers backed off such an across-the-board closing time, instead passing a bill that called for security measures to be implemented and on file with the city liquor board.
Clubs that don’t abide by the rules could be forced to shutter by 10 p.m. Liquor board officials did not respond to be requests for comment Sunday morning.
According to posts on its Facebook page, Norma Jean’s had been closed for a period of time and reopened in mid-July.
5 comments
No longer a place I see myself going, even without this latest sad news. Norma Jeans was a target of places I had been wanting to visit again, but it had been closed on the various prior visits to The Block.
Not only is Police HQ down the block from Norma Jeans, but the last time I visited at nighttime, police blocked Baltimore St around 10pm, so they were likely just a short distance from club when this occurred. So, the gunman was brazen enough to carry a weapon likely directly beside LE, showing an IDGAF mentality.