Young woman shot Saturday night as she walks to downtown club
A 19-year-old North Jacksonville woman was shot in the buttocks late Saturday as she walked with friends to a nightclub at 672 W. Forsyth St.
Officers on patrol at Clay and Adams streets learned of the shooting at 11:15 p.m., when a car full of women screamed at them as they drove past that a woman had been shot at Forsyth and Davis streets, police said. Unable to find any victim at that intersection, and with no one at the Platnum club admitting that they had heard gunshots, the officers called Shands Jacksonville. That's when an off-duty officer said a shooting victim had just walked in...
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2011-02-14/story/young-woman-shot-saturday-night-she-walks-downtown-club#ixzz1DwoIvFNx
Anyone been to the Platnum Club?
Not me. I tend more toward the bars to the east, when I'm out downtown.
Not me... I was unaware of it until this article... :o
Google street shows it as a dilapidated historic building with a rollup door but they may be off on the address.
Platnum? Is that seriously the name?
Yeah, I think the TU has the wrong address.
827 W. Forsyth is what I'm coming up with... in fact... I believe this is the flyer for the event/location.
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Ladies in lingerie...free B4 9...lol.
I'm surprised...usually parties hosted by "Flip Dice" et al almost never attract a crowd that would shoot a woman in the butt. ::)
:D
Pop a cap in your ass...literally.
This is a "sometimes" club....basically it opens occassionally....the rest of the time, the space is used for special events.
No laughing matter here-this is why so many dread "Down Town" and "Duval"..................