Two people were wounded Tuesday morning when a gunfight inside a northeast Atlanta strip club continued in the parking lot, police said.
The shooting at the Onyx Atlanta club is the second incident in a week to trouble the neighboring communities of Morningside and Piedmont Heights. A June 23 shooting outside a Monroe Drive gas station claimed the life of a rideshare passenger. Police arrested the driver.
“This escalation of gun-related crime is unacceptable and understandably causing anxiety among residents,” Atlanta City Council member Jennifer Ide, who represents the area, said in a Tuesday email to her constituents. She said she would push for the club’s liquor license to be revoked.
“Establishments holding liquor licenses in the city have a responsibility to operate safely and by the rules, and Onyx is failing to do so,” she said in the email. “I have asked Licensing and Permitting to put Onyx at the top of their list to bring an action before the License Review Board.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called and left text messages seeking comment from the club and has not received a response.
The shooting outside the Cheshire Bridge Road nightclub was recorded on cellphone video shared with the AJC. The video, filmed from behind a fence in a parking lot, captured the sound of more than two dozen shots ringing out in quick succession.
At the end of the video, two Atlanta police officers can be seen pulling into an intersection. According to police, officers responded about 3:30 a.m. and found one man with a gunshot wound. A second victim later showed up at a hospital. Both were reported to be stable late Tuesday morning.
Investigators determined a fight inside the club escalated to gunfire, Atlanta police said in a statement.
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“In the parking lot outside someone began firing (a) gun and security personnel at the nightclub returned fire,” the department said. “It is unclear at this time who was shooting inside the nightclub, who was shooting in the parking lot, or who shot the two people that were wounded.”
There was a large police presence late into the morning outside the club, where investigators collected evidence and spoke with clubgoers. One officer was seen toting a rifle evidence box.
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The crime scene is less than a mile from the Chevron station where Kevin Leonard Fulton, 36, was killed in a shooting that critically injured his fellow rideshare passenger. Uber driver Nigel Nembhard, also 36, was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault.
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Credit: JOHN SPINK / AJC
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