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YOUNGSTOWN Youngstown’s mayor and police chief both stressed that a fatal shooting at Utopia Video Nightclub was not a hate crime targeting the LGBT community.
“There’s no evidence suggesting that this was a hate crime,” Chief Carl Davis said.
“This was not a hate crime,” echoed Mayor Jamael Tito Brown.
Davis said police are working under the assumption that the fatal shooting victim was the intended target. He had many wounds, police said.
This nightclub shooting early Saturday left one person dead and two others wounded.
Shots were fired about 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Utopia Video Nightclub, 876 E. Midlothian Blvd.
YOUNGSTOWN Sometime after a 27-year-old Youngstown rapper performed on stage and left the stage, someone “walked up and shot him” multiple times inside Utopia Video Nightclub on East Midlothian Boulevard early Saturday, killing him.
The deliberate way he was shot indicates the man, whose name is not yet being released, was the intended victim of the shooting, police Chief Carl Davis told the news media Monday.
“There is no evidence suggesting this was a hate crime,” Davis said of the shootings at the LGBTQ+ club. Those initials stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning). The “plus” is for all other gender identities.