Police today identified two Kansas City, Kan., men as homicide victims in a shooting early Friday morning outside a Northeast area nightclub.They were positively identified as Drell D. Fisher, 22, and Reginald L. Barnes, 22.The shooting was reported about 3:30 a.m. outside of Gerry’s Silver Slipper near Independence Avenue and Van Brunt Boulevard.A witness told police that she heard the gunman say something about money before both men were shot. The gunman then fled in a car, possibly occupied by another man.When police arrived, officers found a man with a gun, but officers said the man dropped the weapon and ran.The man was apprehended after a short foot chase and was being held pending possible weapon and drug charges unrelated to the homicides. Police said they did not think that gun was the murder weapon.Two weeks ago, three men were injured — including one who was stabbed 14 times — during a brawl and knife fight at the same nightclub.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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