After-Hours Club Owner Charged In Wake Of Shooting
Charges Not Connected To Weekend Shooting
The man accused of running the illegal bar where six people were shot early Sunday was arrested on a weapons charge.Court documents state that Jerome Taylor improperly had two handguns while facing felony charges in a separate incident.Police said Taylor was indicted in an attempted murder case earlier this year.Taylor is not currently a suspect in the Warsaw Avenue shootings that left six people wounded, one of them critically.Bond was set at $100,000.Neighbors said the party house was run like a business, and this wasn't the first shooting there."It's an after-hours bar," said one neighbor. "They don't ever open up until 12 or 1 at night. This has been the fifth shooting since it opened up."The neighbor said he heard 30 or 40 people outside on the night of the shooting."They were arguing back and forth, (and) the next thing we heard was 15, 20 shots," the neighbor said. "The girl laid there for 30 minutes."
The man accused of running the illegal bar where six people were shot early Sunday was arrested on a weapons charge.
Court documents state that Jerome Taylor improperly had two handguns while facing felony charges in a separate incident.
Police said Taylor was indicted in an attempted murder case earlier this year.
Taylor is not currently a suspect in the Warsaw Avenue shootings that left six people wounded, one of them critically.
Neighbors said the party house was run like a business, and this wasn't the first shooting there.
"It's an after-hours bar," said one neighbor. "They don't ever open up until 12 or 1 at night. This has been the fifth shooting since it opened up."
The neighbor said he heard 30 or 40 people outside on the night of the shooting.
"They were arguing back and forth, (and) the next thing we heard was 15, 20 shots," the neighbor said. "The girl laid there for 30 minutes."