Photo not from last weekends shooting.

  • Photo not from last weekend’s shooting.

In the wee hours last Saturday, two people were shot in a parking lot that services Lounge 75, a nightclub located near Public Square. One was 23-year-old Demario Warren, who was killed, and the other a 21-year-old woman who was struck in the ankle. Some reports claimed that the altercation began inside the club and ended in tragedy outside. The same location was linked to a shooting two years ago.

Landlord Dan Dzina told WKYC that he decided to cancel the club’s lease. While the club may not have been directly linked to the shooting, the landlord felt it was attracting the wrong crowd.

Located a few hundred feet from Horseshoe Casino, East 4th and Quicken Loans Arena, the club immediately drew the attention of Councilman Joe Cimperman, who vowed to get the liquor license revoked.

This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2013.

Jason Beudert has had a dynamic career as a leader with The Walt Disney Company, ESPNZone, The Cleveland Indians, and as a restaurant entrepreneur. He is utilizing his twenty years of hospitality experience along with his love for the Cleveland food scene to contribute exciting and insightful food pieces for Scene. Along with being one of our food writers, Jason is also the food critic for WOIO 19 Action News, and makes a weekly appearance on Q104's Fee's Kompany radio show to promote food and the Scene. Jason is also a contributing writer for Travel + Leisure Magazine.

One reply on “Plug Pulled on Public Square Club After Two People Were Shot on Site”

  1. Just a friendly reminder that we have a lot of pieces of crap over on this side of the world as well. So, we have one person dead and another injured over what? What exactly was so important or horrible that caused some idiot to pull out a gun, then kill and wound two people? I would love to know.

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