An argument between two men during a private party inside Liquid Blue, a club in Clearwater, ends with a 27-year-old man shot in the leg.
By JANETTE NEUWAHL
Published August 10, 2004
[Times photo: Kinfay Moroti]
Two customers embrace as they await questioning in the shooting inside Liquid Blue nightclub. A man identified as Evans Noga, 27, was shot in the leg during an argument at a party held inside the club. Noga is listed in good condition.
[Times photo: Kinfay Moroti]
Workers and customers relax while waiting to be questioned about a shooting early Monday morning at Liquid Blue, a nightclub on N Fort Harrison Avenue in Clearwater.
CLEARWATER - An altercation between two men escalated into a shooting at a local club early Monday morning that sent one man to the hospital.
Clearwater police responded about 1:10 a.m. Monday to Liquid Blue, a nightclub at 22 N Fort Harrison Ave.
Police said two men were involved in an altercation at the Liquid
Blue nightclub when patron Evans Noga was shot in the leg. Noga Evans was not involved in the fight and was caught in the cross fire as he was trying to break up a fight between two groups.
Noga was taken by ambulance to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, said Wayne Shelor, spokesman for the Clearwater Police Department.
He is listed in good condition, hospital officials said Monday.
Clearwater police are still looking for the man who shot Noga.
There were about 50 people in the club at the time of the shooting, but police are having a hard time identifying the shooter because few of the patrons saw the skirmish, which took place inside the club.
The shooter, who used a handgun, was able to get away before police arrived.
Clearwater police are looking for a man believed to be a white male in his early 20s wearing blue jeans and a dark shirt.
An investigation is under way, with detectives interviewing more club patrons and investigating evidence recovered from the scene, Shelor said.
