KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Following the second shooting within the past year involving an East Kansas City, Missouri, nightclub and bar, city officials are preparing to take the bar down.
“Having a liquor license is not a right, it's a privilege,” said Jim Ready, manager with KCMO’s Department of Regulated Industries.
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Ready said 9ine Ultra lounge has been on the department's radar since the January shooting that left two people dead, including the suspect, and 15 people injured.
“I had my folks go out there, we found that this bar was open after hours,” he said.
Regulated Industries informed the bar's owner, former Kansas City Chiefs player Alphonso Hodge, just this week that its license would be up for revocation.
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“There was no doubt in my mind before," Ready said. "I don't think there should be any doubt in anybody's mind that this license should no longer be in place."
In video obtained by 41 Action News, shots are exchanged outside the club in the early morning hours on Sunday.
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KCPD said three people were wounded and a fourth was critically injured.
“You cannot, time and time, again have shooting after shooting," KCMO Mayor Quinton Lucas said, "particularly when there were things that you can do to make sure an establishment is safer."
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However, a friend of Hodge's previously told 41 Action News that gun violence is the city's issue, not the club's.
Regulated Industries said the latest shooting adds more evidence to a mounting case for revocation of 9ine’s liquor license, but the hearing likely won’t take place for another two to three weeks.
