hideyoursheep
01-04-2008, 07:11 AM
A good friend of mine who I train with once in a while, works a club
in downtown Cincinnati as security. It's supposed to be a pretty high-end joint, I guess. I myself have never been there. Nonetheless, he works @ the club every 3rd weekend of the month, providing security for the VIP room, where he says he's been asked to watch some of the Bengals players whenever they go in, for a little extra scratch, he'll keep people from "bothering" the players, or any entertainers who might stop in, from being harrassed and shit while they gey their drink
on.
He was working the VIP room on new years eve, making sure everyone's got a pass, or a wristband to get in. This is just the VIP room. Usually, someone the club hires does the front door, and a patdown is sometimes required-to keep people honest. This night, however, some kind of entertainment company (as he described) had hired the people for the front door. He didn't know these guys. The company was holding a grand opening party @ their club's VIP room,
and it was again his responsibility to keep out the riff-raff or uninvited,and not to let the room go beyond the legal capacity.
It was also his job to keep the peace in there.
Alot of the VIP folks were family or friends who got in with some kind of clearance from those inside, some had to pay 20 bucks to get in.
There were no fights, no arguments, nothing. Just people having a good time.
SOMEBODY, it's really not known for sure if it was male or female, walked up to a guy, 26 years old, stuck a 9mm up against his jaw and neck, aimed straight up, and fired 1 round. The round exited the top of his head, ricochet off the ceiling or something up there and struck another man in the hip who I think he said was sitting down.
My friend's a pretty big guy, but not superman. He immediately called the Sherriff who was outside. Everybody in there started running for the exit. It was all he could do to get out of the way, 'cause he don't know if he's next, you know?
The deputy didn't let anybody else leave, but by then it was just employees and friends/family of the man who was already dead.
The Cincinnati police came in and separated everyone and began with the questions. 10 minutes later, a camera shows up,
and starts filming the crime scene. The club owner goes apeshit, but there was nothing he could do to stop the filming because the cameraman is also a detective. This footage, he was told, was going to air on A+E sometime next week on some show called "the next 48" or some shit. (If any of you know what this is and when it's on, let me know.)
Anyway, the coroner arrives, the guy has his wallet, not a lot of cash, ID, the usual...no drugs (although no one knows if he was high or not)
As of right now, there have been no arrests.
My friend said that this is the second time there has been a shooting in the area clubs since he's been working there....
One of his co-workers worked at the nightclub that used to operate
next door to the one they work at now, and he had words with one of their security boys while he was working there for the 1 night.
As he was leaving,someone came up to his car and fired 5 times.
They missed all five.
That place is closed now.
He's pretty shook up, wondering if there was something he could have done. I said "no" , it wasn't his responsibility to do the pat downs @ the door, that was delegated to another group, and they dropped the ball. I said it's time maybe you work somewhere else, like loss prevention at the mall, chasing old women down who shoplift...this shit is too dangerous and the risk isn't worth the reward.
He agreed.
:cool:
in downtown Cincinnati as security. It's supposed to be a pretty high-end joint, I guess. I myself have never been there. Nonetheless, he works @ the club every 3rd weekend of the month, providing security for the VIP room, where he says he's been asked to watch some of the Bengals players whenever they go in, for a little extra scratch, he'll keep people from "bothering" the players, or any entertainers who might stop in, from being harrassed and shit while they gey their drink
on.
He was working the VIP room on new years eve, making sure everyone's got a pass, or a wristband to get in. This is just the VIP room. Usually, someone the club hires does the front door, and a patdown is sometimes required-to keep people honest. This night, however, some kind of entertainment company (as he described) had hired the people for the front door. He didn't know these guys. The company was holding a grand opening party @ their club's VIP room,
and it was again his responsibility to keep out the riff-raff or uninvited,and not to let the room go beyond the legal capacity.
It was also his job to keep the peace in there.
Alot of the VIP folks were family or friends who got in with some kind of clearance from those inside, some had to pay 20 bucks to get in.
There were no fights, no arguments, nothing. Just people having a good time.
SOMEBODY, it's really not known for sure if it was male or female, walked up to a guy, 26 years old, stuck a 9mm up against his jaw and neck, aimed straight up, and fired 1 round. The round exited the top of his head, ricochet off the ceiling or something up there and struck another man in the hip who I think he said was sitting down.
My friend's a pretty big guy, but not superman. He immediately called the Sherriff who was outside. Everybody in there started running for the exit. It was all he could do to get out of the way, 'cause he don't know if he's next, you know?
The deputy didn't let anybody else leave, but by then it was just employees and friends/family of the man who was already dead.
The Cincinnati police came in and separated everyone and began with the questions. 10 minutes later, a camera shows up,
and starts filming the crime scene. The club owner goes apeshit, but there was nothing he could do to stop the filming because the cameraman is also a detective. This footage, he was told, was going to air on A+E sometime next week on some show called "the next 48" or some shit. (If any of you know what this is and when it's on, let me know.)
Anyway, the coroner arrives, the guy has his wallet, not a lot of cash, ID, the usual...no drugs (although no one knows if he was high or not)
As of right now, there have been no arrests.
My friend said that this is the second time there has been a shooting in the area clubs since he's been working there....
One of his co-workers worked at the nightclub that used to operate
next door to the one they work at now, and he had words with one of their security boys while he was working there for the 1 night.
As he was leaving,someone came up to his car and fired 5 times.
They missed all five.
That place is closed now.
He's pretty shook up, wondering if there was something he could have done. I said "no" , it wasn't his responsibility to do the pat downs @ the door, that was delegated to another group, and they dropped the ball. I said it's time maybe you work somewhere else, like loss prevention at the mall, chasing old women down who shoplift...this shit is too dangerous and the risk isn't worth the reward.
He agreed.
:cool: