A west Birmingham club could be shut down after weekend gunfire left one person dead and several others wounded.
Lykeria Briana Taylor, 21, was killed and her boyfriend injured Sunday morning after they left Euphoria Sports Bar and Hookah Lounge, also known as Club Euphoria.
Additionally, three other people were wounded at the club.
This was the second major shooting incident at the 15th Street West business in less than two years.
“All of this is unacceptable,’' Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said Tuesday. “We, as in the mayor and the council, have the expectation that club owners protect their patrons and their customers and that is not the case here.”
The shooting at the club happened at 1:58 a.m. Sunday. Few details have been released by police, but three people suffered gunshot injuries that were not life-threatening.
A short time later, at 2:20 a.m., West Precinct officers responded to a report of person shot at the intersection of Avenue V at Warrior Road. Shot Spotter also alerted officers of rounds fired in the area.
Police arrived to find Taylor and her boyfriend wounded. Both were transported to UAB Hospital. The male suffered a non-life-threatening injury.
Taylor was pronounced dead Monday morning. It appears she was one of at least 10 people shot in Birmingham on Sunday, including at least seven in just over an hour.
Officer Truman Fitzgerald said the preliminary investigation suggests Taylor and her boyfriend had just left Club Euphoria when an unknown vehicle pulled up alongside them and fired shots into their vehicle.
No arrests have been announced.
The club was the scene of multiple people shot less than two years ago. In November 2019, five people were shot there, one of them fatally.
Killed in that shooting was 25-year-old Fredrick Asher of Florence, a recent graduate of Lawson State Community College who had just bought his first home with his fiancé.
A young man killed in a drive-by shooting at a west Birmingham club died the way he lived – protecting others. Fredrick Asher, 25, was a recent graduate of Lawson State Community College and had just bought his first home with his fiancé. He died Sunday morning when he and four others were shot when leaving Euphoria Sports Bar & Hookah, but not before pushing another victim out of the way when gunfire erupted. (Photos contributed by family to AL.com)
Patrons said Asher pushed at least one person out of the line of fire before he was fatally struck. “That was just his demeanor,’' his father, Kelvin Asher, told AL.com in the days after the shooting. “He was a very protective and caring young man.”
Four others were wounded in that 2019 shooting at the club.
At a press briefing Tuesday, Birmingham City Councilman Hunter Williams, who chairs the council’s Public Safety Committee, said the council on June 29 will hold a hearing to consider revoking the Euphoria’s business license.
A request for comment from club officials was not immediately returned.
“I want to be explicitly clear. If you operate any venue in the city of Birmingham, whether it be an entertainment venue, a bar, anywhere that serves alcohol or have any sort of responsibility for hosting members of the public, Birmingham residents or visitors of the city of Birmingham, you are required and you are expected to have a safe environment so that we have something where our citizens, our visitors, our guests, will not succumb to any type of violence or anything we’ve seen over this past weekend, specifically at Club Euphoria,’' Williams said.
“This council and this mayor’s office will do whatever we can to enforce every single ordinance that we have on the books here in the City of Birmingham as well as every law that we have at our disposal through the state of Alabama to make sure that no matter what, our citizens will be safe at public venues as well as our visitors,’' he said.
Williams said Euphoria will not be the only establishment facing scrutiny. “If you have had a history of violence at something you either own or operate, rent out, or host, we will make sure you are following the letter of the law so we don’t have any more incidents like we had this past weekend,’' Williams said.
Woodfin agreed. “I want to give public notice to any club owner,’' the mayor said. “You are responsible for protecting your patrons and if you do not do so, we will move to shut you down.”
“You are now on notice,’' Woodfin said. “We hope you have a public safety plan in place. You won’t be given a second chance.”
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