Update: Police said Collier allegedly paid a security guard $20 to let him and his accomplice in through the back door of The Hideaway and did not frisk them.
Justice is coming for those involved in The Hideaway's Halloween homicides. The city asked a Chancery Court to declare the nightclub to be a public nuisance yesterday while JPD arrested Eddie Collier and charged him with two counts of capital murder and seven counts of aggravated assault.
Jackson Municipal Court Judge Jeffrey Reynolds denied Collier bond on the two capital murder charges and set his bond on the aggravated assault charges at $500,000 per charge ($3.5 million).
The city of Jackson did not stop at locking up suspects but asked a Hinds County Chancellor to declare the nightclub to be a public nuisance.
The city of Jackson sued Deville Entertainment, LLC, dba The Hideaway, Deville Plaza, LLC, Weldon Vineyard, Abraham Brach, and several John Does in Hinds County Chancery Court yesterday. Vineyard owns Deville Entertainment. Brach owns Deville Plaza and is in New York.
Vineyard began operating The Hideaway in 2018. The complaint says JPD received over thirty calls for service. Ten of the calls resulted in case numbers. A shootout took place in the nightclub's parking lot in May, resulting in one death and two people wounded. The lawsuit mentions the April shooting of a woman in the parking lot of fellow Deville Plaza tenant Capital City Grille.
The complaint recounts what took place Halloween night. Two masked men entered The Hideaway through the back door, armed with rifles and wearing ski masks. They were looking for some people with whom they had had an altercation earlier that evening. The two men fired into the crowd on the dance floor, killing two people and wounding four others.
The plaintiff does not play around in laying blame at the defendant's feet:
17. At all pertinent times herein, the Defendants had a duty to the patrons and invitees, and to the public in general, to undertake reasonable steps to ensure that The Hideaway was reasonably secure and safe from foreseeable criminal conduct; fit for their particular purpose, and that reasonable security measures were provided and maintained. Defendants had specific control and authority to make decisions material to the personal safety and security of its patrons and invitees and to warn them and other patrons of danger. 18. Defendants have permitted activities that are both illegal and dangerous to occur at or around the subject property, which have created an environment that is harmful to innocent patrons and the public. In addition, Defendants have failed to maintain a safe environment for both the customers of the establishment as well as adjoining landowners and nearby property owners including single family homes and a daycare.
The city of Jackson asks the Court to issue a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction against the operation of The Hideaway and close The Hideaway after declaring it to be a nuisance.
The case is assigned to Hinds County Chancellor Tiffany Grove.
Kingfish note: Still can't believe this is Deville Plaza. Deville Plaza. It's time we did something about Rankin County crime.
18 comments:
Kudos to Horhn for going hard after this. But he's got to throw these heaters every inning of every day if Jackson is to have a chance at returning to some sort of safety normalcy.
RANKIN COUNTY THUGS. As I said.....the culture rot extends far into the bowels of our state. Has infected most all of our poorer youth both black and white. All you gotta do is pay attention.
Read an article on WLBT web site and part of the article stated, "As part of the lawsuit, the city is seeking a court order requiring the shopping center owner to implement sweeping security improvements across the entire property, including enhanced lighting, surveillance cameras, and security personnel." Didn't Chief Doc take out camera's as violation of privacy?
@9:37 there is a difference between a private entity setting up cameras vs. the State having cameras.
People don't like to admit brandon and other little towns in rankin county have bad thugs roaming around. And by people i mean white rankin county residents
Where do you think the Suburban Rankin Truck Gun -to-Jackson Thug Pipeline comes from? Who do you think was Carly Gregg’s drug dealer?
Can't believe the blaring classical music wasn't enough security.
She wants to let a new contract to reset with the various vendors who is exactly in charge. She don't care about privacy. Cameras are going to be used. Just watch.
The Landowner Protection Act sure is protecting these out of state landowners....
Neck tats theory holding firm….I’m a thug and don’t know how to act in society
I’ll admit it but this mass shooting is not about white Rankin county thugs so stick to the topic. The white kids aren’t riding down the street with guns out the window randomly target practicing like the shooting/murder on Deryll street last week. Just shooting for the hell of it.
This is gang activity, planned premeditated murder. I hope there are more arrests coming.
9:56 blaring classical music keeps the homeless tweakers away. It’s not a shooting deterrent. Please STFU when you don’t know what you’re talking about. Gah lee.
How do we get these Brandon thugs out of Jackson? Face and neck tats should be codified as probable cause.
The facts of this case should get it to a jury. You'd prefer to have no restaurants or bars in Jackson? That's where things were headed with limitless premises liability plus jackpot judges and juries.
Isn’t it a law in MS that if you have a tat, you must show it while in public regardless of where it is?
Too bad these thugs don't realize this isn't a movie about South Central L.A. In real life, there's a price to pay when a bullet leaves the barrel of the gun they're holding.
They’ve been in Rankin since the early 90’s at least, nothing new. Don’t forget all your black flight coming in over the past 20-25 years.
I caught this comment @ 9:33: "Has infected most all of our poorer youth both black and white."
I wonder if that poster would let us know of poor whites systemically shooting up towns and killing other poor whites.
It always fails when an attempt is made to pretend your culture is not rotten when you pretend all others are as well - somehow suggesting rot is normal.
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