COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) – Five days after a fatal shooting on the East Side, an afterhours nightclub has been shut down for good.
According to the Columbus City Attorney’s Office, the city secured a temporary restraining order to shutter the Luxxe Lounge, an after-hours club located on Beechwood Avenue, just off East Livingston Avenue.
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“These violent, dangerous places, they sometimes are front and center in stemming the tide of violence,” Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said.
The club has been operating without a liquor license, has been involved in illegal after hours sales, and several gun-related police runs, the release said.
“That’s a recipe for where we have to aggressively step in and shut a place down because it’s a threat not only to the people that visit there, that work there, but then, of course, the surrounding neighborhoods,” Klein said.