Fires Shots Into Strip Club Because They Don’t Want Him Touching Dancer’s Underwear
The North Carolina man now faces 18 counts of assault with a deadly weapon. And all because he was thrown out for putting his hands inside a dancer’s pants.
…33-year-old Mario Chavez had been arrested early Friday after firing more than a dozen bullets into the Leather and Lace strip club.
A 24-year-old dancer who worked at the club said that Chavez had received several “VIP” private dances before the shooting occurred.
At some point, one of the dancers accused the suspect of touching her inappropriately, and he was asked to leave. According to police, Chavez had tried reach inside one of the dancer’s underwear, and had slapped her on the hip.
“He told the bouncer that he’d done apologized to me and the bouncer told him that I’d done gave him a warning and he was going to have to leave,” the dancer, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Gaston Gazette.
That’s when Chavez allegedly walked to his truck, picked up a .40-caliber Beretta handgun and began firing at the building. Police reports said that Chavez ran out of ammunition or the gun jammed, so he went back to his truck for a 9 mm Taurus handgun, and fired at least seven more shots at the nightclub. Two more shots were reportedly fired as Chavez drove away.
