Even the Big Guys Fall Easily When Not Prepared or Expecting Another’s Behavior
Dark areas, Unexpected Violence, People Trained to Protect
It Can Happen Anytime, Anywhere to Anyone – No one is immune and
Ignoring the Situations Around Us Won’t Make Them Go Away
Bouncer was hurt night before another was killed By Bill Bryan ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Monday, Oct. 16 2006
St. Louis homicide detectives say they have no idea whether the stabbing death
of a bouncer at a downtown hip-hop club was related to a fight the night before
in which someone bit off about half the ear of another bouncer.
Both incidents were inside the Formula night club, at Washington Avenue and
Tucker Boulevard.
Police said Monday that they were having difficulty finding eyewitnesses to the
fatal stabbing early Sunday of Jerome D. Fowler, 29, whose neck was slashed
shortly before 2 a.m. He bled to death at the scene, police said.
The club was somewhat dark inside but many people were there at the time,
homicide detectives said. It occurred more than an hour before closing time.
Fowler lived in the 600 block of 52nd Street in East St. Louis.
Detectives were looking at the possibility of a link to an incident about 12:30
a.m. Saturday, in which someone bit another bouncer in a fight after he asked
two men to leave because of their behavior. The men fled.