Witness standing near West 7th club killing victim identified shooters, cops say

An eyewitness provided a detective with the nicknames of two shooters who she said fired upon a man in an October killing inside a Fort Worth nightclub, and the identification is among the evidence supporting murder, gang and mass shooting indictments in the case, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

The eyewitness knew Patrique Allen, the man who was slain, and was standing near Allen when, she told the detective, she saw a person who she knows as Lil Steppa shoot at Allen. The eyewitness was less certain about the second shooter. She said that he may be a person who she knows as BaBa. The eyewitness later identified photos of the shooters, who police concluded are Akrell Ross and Jason Nash, each from among the images of six people who look similar.

The shooting left a bullet under a couch cushion and ejected cartridge casings in blood under the couch inside Social LIVV, a club on Bledsoe Street in Fort Worth’s West 7th entertainment district…

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