Club Manager's Daughter Was Among Injured In Weekend Shooting
MIAMI (CBSMiami) - The daughter of a Miami club manager was among the injured in a weekend mass shooting at The Spot.
CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald reports that the 13-year old daughter of Tiffany Johnson, and the girl's 11-year old friend, were two of the 15 people shot early Sunday morning.
Johnson has been issued a series of code violations by a club task force with a notice to appear in court. Meanwhile the lights are off at The Spot.
"The big question everyone had is is this a club or is this a restaurant. And the outcome was it is licensed for a restaurant which is to serve meals, alcohol -being wine and beer, with the meal," said Miami police spokeswoman Frederica Burden.
But that's far from what was going on according to police. They say after hours the joint turned into a club and it had been going on for months.
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"Inside the restaurant were several flyers that were advertising different functions as a club at that location," said Burden.
Amazingly the city had no idea what was going on until chaos erupted early Sunday morning. According to a CBS4 source two teenagers got into an argument. A gun came out and bullets started flying.
"Part of that problem was the lack of personnel they had. The lack of screening for weapons and having kids and alcohol. It's just a bad mix overall," said Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa.
When Miami's club task force arrived Monday to see what went wrong they quickly realized they had never heard of the club. For good reason - it wasn't licensed.
Violations cited were for electrical issues, bottles of liquor found behind the bar, distributing alcohol with only a beer and wine license, for not having permits for a jukebox and a pool table, and for buying beer at Presidente Supermarket, which isn't a legal distributor. The citations came with a recommendation to remove The Spot's certificate of use.
Alcohol Beverages and Tobacco arrested Johnson on the spot.
The city is threatening to fine them daily until the violations are resolved. It may be cheaper, just not to open again which is something the area's commissioner says he doesn't want to see.
"Shutting down an open business that provides jobs to people in the community, puts food on tables, is not the responsibility of the City of Miami community," said Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon. "What we should be looking instead of doing is actually stopping the people, the instances of terror on our communities."
CBS news partner The Miami Herald contributed to this report.
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