Denver police arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a quadruple shooting outside a Denver nightclub early Saturday morning.
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Ty Anderson was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and illegally discharging a firearm, police said in a news release Monday. He is suspected of participating in a quadruple shooting outside Volt Club at 2121 Sheridan Blvd., just after midnight Saturday morning.
A security guard and three other people were shot in the parking lot outside the southwest Denver club after an assault or fight escalated into an exchange of gunfire, Denver police said. The security guard was attempting to intervene in the dispute — which involved a large group — when the guard was grazed in the foot, police spokesman Doug Schepman said.
Investigators believe both the security guard and Anderson fired shots, and are working to determine if any other people fired, Schepman said.
The guard told investigators that “people in the parking lot began firing guns,” that he did not remember firing his own weapon and that he blacked out, according to Anderson’s arrest affidavit.
All of the victims are expected to survive. Investigators recovered one 9 mm spent casing and six .40 caliber spent casings, according to the affidavit, as well as four guns.
A witness told police that Anderson fired out the window of a dark gray Dodge Charger, according to the affidavit.
Police officers pursued a driver who fled the scene in a Charger, following from a distance and with a helicopter until several passengers jumped out at 2700 block of S. Newton Street, including Anderson. He and two other passengers were detained after they left the car. Anderson was in possession of a gun, according to the affidavit, which did not describe the weapon.
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The driver of the Charger kept going after the passengers jumped out, driving until officers used a precision immobilization technique to force the vehicle to stop near the interchange of Interstate 70 and Interstate 25, according to an affidavit. The driver, Izrial Martin, 22, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular eluding and assault. A passenger who’d remained in the car was also detained, police said.
Of those detained, only Anderson and Martin have been arrested so far, Schepman said, noting the possibility for additional arrests.
Anderson was previously arrested in May and charged in Denver County Court with possessing a gun while under the influence of alcohol and disorderly conduct in a separate incident.
He posted a $1,500 bail on the day of the incident, May 9, and was released from jail, court records show. That prior case is pending and he is next due in court in September, court records show. Court records that detail the circumstances of the May incident were not immediately available Monday.
On the nightclub shooting, Anderson posted a $50,000 bail and was released from jail Monday, according to court records. He is next due in court Aug. 31.
Representatives for the club could not be reached for comment Monday.
The shooting is the second multi-victim shooting at a Denver nightclub in less than a month. On July 20, a 25-year-old man was killed and eight other people were shot at Ultra Lounge East, a nightclub at 9755 E. Hampden Ave., that has since shuttered.
The city also ordered a nightclub in Five Points, Olympus Discotheque, to shut down last week after a security guard was accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a patron in the club after it closed for the night.
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