The scene at 6:40pm police and a crime scene that went for blocks!
Photos by Jim O'BryanThe Foundry Concert Club, 11729 Detroit Ave., near W.117th St. in Lakewood was the center of a gruesome mob attack that has thus far sent 4 people to nearby hospitals.
Crime scene before being roped off by the police.
Witnesses first described seeing the crowd dressed in all black near The Brothers Lounge in Cleveland near W. 117th St.
Lakewood Police hold one of 4 groups detained in the attack at Brother's Lounge Parking
lot, where some say the entire mob assembled.
According to the server staff at the My Friends restaurant in Cleveland "They were all wearing black. They were all gathered near here and then they all went running, some went behind The Brothers Lounge, some went behind Pizza Hut, some went behind Walgreens. They were running towards that club" (Foundry Concert Club). "As they ran
back past the restaurant, one of them left a hammer in our doorway. The police took it."
Rayshawn Williams and Alexandria Wagner, standing where they witnessed the attack.
Meanwhile in Lakewood, Alexandria Wagner was standing near Coutant Ave and described a crowd of approximately 50 people wearing all black crossing over from Cleveland with machetes, baseball bats, batons, and guns."They came from Cleveland, I don't know what there reasoning was but they were very upset"
Toyia Malaieb who also witnessed the shooting and attack.
While leaving Value World, eyewitness Toyia Malaieb, described the chaotic scene that led to the bloody attack "There was three guys beating up one guy on the street and then another group of guys wearing all black pulled one of the guys out of the car and they began to beat him".
Minutes later, according to Maleib, "a scary white guy with a beard wearing all black came out of nowhere and started shooting aimlessly into the crowd, then shot up in the air three times".
The Foundry
After the shots were fired, according to eye witnesses, the large group dispersed through side streets in Lakewood and Cleveland.
According to the Lakewood Police Department, at the time of this writing, 10 arrests have been made.
Car window shot out. and bullet casing.
Another bullet casing.
Four more casings that had been collected.
Another ambulance leaves the area, this one with a man that had been hit over the head
with a beer bottle from the mob and was bleeding heavily.
The crime scene went east on Detroit ave. to West 114th Street with groups of white males
being held for questioning. Or people being treated.
Musicians leave the venue.
The police at the alley they ran down before the attack, and there was spots of blood after it.
Scene of the shooting, though no one has a gun shot wound. Yet! All the wounds are
from the machetes.
From the Foundry you can see the police and ambulances line the street as they arrive.
Detained by police.
Leaving the scene we had heard of ten arrests.
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