Temporary Closings

Suede Nightclub Shutters Voluntarily After Shooting

This past weekend’s shooting at Suede near Fisherman’s Wharf, which left one dead and four injured, sparked an uproar in the neighborhood and the club has now offered to close for 30 days, the Examiner reports. District Supervisor David Chiu says he is asking various city departments to find whatever tools they may have to shut the club down. “They have clearly not demonstrated their ability to keep our neighborhood safe and to ensure public safety,” chides Chiu.

The trouble is, the one deceased victim and the alleged shooter — who was himself shot by police and later arrested — are both from Richmond, and it’s not the club’s fault that a possible East Bay gang/turf war erupted on their premises. The place is a semi-douchey, models-and-bottles sort of venue, and this kind of violence isn’t a regular occurrence as far as we know. Should the city free to punish a place for the crowd it only occasionally attracts?

Police are still looking for explanations for the conflict, saying that several eye witnesses are now having “memory failure.”

Nightclub to Close Temporarily After Shooting [SF Examiner]

Suede Nightclub Shutters Voluntarily After Shooting