LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Police were searching for a 24-year-old man wanted in connection with a nightclub shooting that left three people.
Authorities issued an arrest warrant on suspicion of murder for a Lima man.
Police haven’t released a motive in the shooting that left two people dead inside a downtown bar in Lima early Tuesday. A third victim was found outside on a sidewalk.
Police officials told The Lima News that they believe two shootings at homeslater that day were connected to the fatal shooting at the bar. No one was injured in those two other shootings.
The downtown bar called Levels Lounge was a known trouble spot in the city and the subject of a nuisance lawsuit by the city. Court records show police responded to 123 calls from the same address within the past 12 months, the newspaper reported.
City officials said Tuesday that they will take action to immediately shut down the bar.
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Police: 3 killed in shooting at Lima bar
LIMA — Three people were killed in a shooting early Tuesday at a bar that the city had identified as a trouble spot and was the subject of a nuisance lawsuit, authorities said.
Two of the people were found dead inside the bar, while the body of the third person was outside on a sidewalk, police said.
The shooting happened just before closing time at the Levels Lounge in downtown Lima.
No one was in custody yet, said Lima police Sgt. Jason Garlock. Several other people were inside the bar at the time, but it did not appear anyone else was shot, he said.
Police identified the victims as Terell McGraw, 28, Devontae Upshaw, 24, and Timothy White, 25, all of Lima. The bar was the site of another shooting last year that injured a man in a parking lot.
The city filed a nuisance lawsuit against the bar and the City Council in April voiced its opposition to renewing the club’s liquor license, citing repeated trouble and illegal activities.
The bar’s manager told city officials last year that had hired security guards and installed metal detectors in response to the high number of calls to police, The Lima News reported.