This is soooo annoying.. ruby skye was not even open, and 1015, anyone know what event they were hosting?
Tosh
ya sounds like they kinda named Ruby just cuz it was also a club
But WTF???? What is the point of shooting into a club?
72hrpartyanimal
ing media. anything to get a story. bad that the shootings took place. but couldn't they have said "near the Hilton Hotel" or something???
DaveT
Andrieux
Five detained in connection with tourist death
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle August 9, 2010 12:29 PM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Monday, August 9, 2010
(08-09) 12:29 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Police have detained five teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of a German tourist walking with her husband in the Theater District Sunday night.
The elementary school rector was hit by stray gunfire during a battle between rival groups attending an under-18 party at a private club, police said today.
Mechthild Schröer, 50, of Minden, Germany, was killed at 9 p.m. Sunday when shots were fired on the 400 block of Mason Street at Geary Street in the Theater District, police said. Her husband was not injured.
Two others, a 15-year-old boy and a 19-year-old woman, were wounded and were treated and released.
It was not the only club related gunfire over the weekend. Shortly before 2 a.m. Monday, two women were shot on Harriet Street near the 1015 Folsom nightclub in the South of Market neighborhood.
The shootings follow a string of other violent incidents at or near San Francisco nightclubs.
On July 11, a man was shot and killed on Terry Francois Boulevard outside Jelly's Dance Cafe in the Mission Bay neighborhood, the second slaying outside the club since 2008.
Other recent shootings outside El Rincon in the Mission and Suede in North Beach have led critics - including members of the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom - to question whether the city's Entertainment Commission can effectively regulate problem clubs.
However, the Theater District event that led to Sunday's fatal shooting may not have been subject to any city entertainment laws, since the party did not have food, alcohol or live music, officials said.
Assistant Chief Jeff Godown said the shooting happened when two groups, each with three to four teen-agers, clashed outside the private event at 414 Mason Street.
"It was just a group of guys shooting at another group," Godown said. "It was a private, end of summer party. You needed ID to get in. Both groups were either coming or going to the club."
The building where the party was held has a clubhouse on the fifth floor, police said.
The owner of San Francisco Comedy College and Clubhouse, Curtis Matthews, said he rented his space to a private promoter and visited the gathering before the shooting.
He said it was a dance party attended by about 200 kids between the ages of 13 and 17. There was no alcohol, food or live music - only music videos, he said.
"We just rented out the facility," Matthews said. "It sounded like a good thing for high school kids."
He said the event had "ample security" with at least five guards.
"We never did this before and we will never do this again," Matthews said. "I'm sorry to hear what happened."
Lt. Mike Stasko of the San Francisco police homicide detail said his officers were talking to the detained five suspects. He noted that the event got out of hand after tickets were pre-sold over the Internet. "It was supposed to be an under-18 party when you needed student ID to get in," Stasko said.
"Then it got going out on the Internet, but they oversold," he said. "They didn't have enough security."
He said at least two of the teens involved in the clash had been inside the club before the gun battle. "We know that this is a magnet for all the others to come, some want to beat their chest and act like tough guys. None of the shooters got hit."
He said multiple shots were fired during the battle.
"You had shots fired up and down Mason Street," Stasko said, noting that two rounds hit Pinecrest Diner at 401 Geary St.
Eberhard Brockmann, German deputy consul general in San Francisco, said Schröer came with her husband to the United States on July 17 and had been planning to leave San Francisco on Tuesday for St. Louis before leaving from Chicago later this month.
Her husband "was at her side when he realized what happened," Brockmann said, noting that the couple was about a block from their hotel when the gunfire erupted.
He said the couple's two teenaged sons stayed in Germany during the trip, which came after Schröer was made rector of her elementary school in February.
"They were at wrong time at the wrong place," Brockmann said, noting that the couple had been walking back to the King George hotel. "It's a tragedy."
This historically hard-partying city is poised to adopt a get-tough ordinance that officials hope will allow the swift shutdown of nightspots that become magnets for violence.
The measure giving San Francisco's beleaguered Entertainment Commission the power to revoke the operating permits of troubled clubs comes after residential complaints about noise, unruliness and gunplay, mostly outside popular spots in the wee-morning hours.
Last month, there was a fatal shooting outside a popular Mission Bay nightclub. And six months ago, a hail of 44 bullets outside a notorious club in the Fisherman's Wharf area left one person dead and four critically injured.
"San Francisco has had a very vibrant nightlife with many clubs who have operated very well without affecting their surroundings," said David Chiu, a county supervisor whose district encompasses the Wharf, North Beach, Union Square and Nob Hill.
"But unfortunately we've had some problematic clubs with histories of violence," said Chiu, saying the city is averaging a club-related shooting a month.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, who this spring questioned the commission's effectiveness, is expected to sign the measure into law this week.
The violent revelry has become cause for concern even in this tolerant international tourist destination where during the Gold Rush, seedy bayside establishments for sex, gambling and drinking were known as the Barbary Coast.
Enraged residents have complained for years that the seven-member politically appointed Entertainment Commission, which regulates and promotes city nightlife, has turned a blind eye to the problem because of the financial benefits partygoers bring to the city. Some critics said the panel should be shut down for failing to take prompt action against clubs with recurring problems.
However, the commission's acting executive director Jocelyn Kane said a few bad clubs have fueled a perception that the city's dancing and drinking venues are unsafe.
"Ninety-nine percent of our establishments are extremely responsible," Kane said. "Stuff happens sometimes, but now we have the tools to act swiftly to determine whether a venue hasn't acted as responsibly as they should."
About 2 percent of the city's 1,500 recognized nightspots now are considered trouble spots, said police Cmdr. Jim Dudley.
The ordinance is long overdue, Dudley said. "If this is used quickly and judiciously, it could help the industry and public safety," he said.
Previously, the commission had authority to temporarily suspend a venue's operating permit but it could only be revoked if the owner falsified the permit application.
But with the Board of Supervisors recently voting unanimously to expand the commission's power to revoke a venue's permit, Chiu said, "There's no more excuses."
Kane said the commission will make the most of its expanded powers. "We do not take violence lightly and we will respond swiftly," she said. "We care about this city and that's why I'm confident we will be here year after year."
For more than three years, Club Suede, the Fisherman's Wharf nightspot, was on the radar of the commission and police. Neighbors repeatedly said the two-story club was too crowded, too loud and did little to tame the debauchery that occurred at closing time.
After 100 police responded to the fatal gunfire outside the club in February, Club Suede had its license suspended. It remains closed.
Newsom chimed in during a spring hearing on the club's fate.
"Enough is enough. I want to put an end to this. This is taking a lot of time, this one club," Newsom said. "People are spending a lot of energy to shut it down, and it shouldn't be this hard."
The episode prompted City Attorney Dennis Herrera to file a lawsuit in April to shut the club down permanently. Herrera and Suede's owners are currently in settlement talks.
"Going after reckless establishments ... isn't simply about protecting club-goers and neighbors, it's about protecting responsible operators, and standing up for one of our city's most important cultural attractions and business sectors," Herrera said.
The commission's Kane said she hopes the ordinance will make problem-prone clubs venue think twice about how they operate.
She noted that some locales recently have been shying away from DJ-driven "ultra lounges" with large crowds and trending more toward events featuring live bands.
"Many people who come to party in San Francisco, leave happy and come back again," Kane said. "That's how it should be."
Tosh
quote:
Originally posted by DJ Taj
new rules to be set in place for sf ent. commission....
Is it just me or this article actually have no bias for once?
"According to KTVU, the shooting, along with another in the area the same night, was part of a rash of nightclub-related violence in the city. "
The club was not even open WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!
fupaking
still it's not cool when any shootings take place near places we frequent.
the first on mason obviously is case of a bunch of kids that should not have been allowed to have a party there in the first place. still wondering what the other was about, if it was a product of the neighborhood or what.
-FSP-
Come on media...Bashing dance music is so 2000/late 1990s.
modthispny
kinda scary though, regardless if the club was open or not.
i always go to ruby skye about 2-3x a year from so.cal to see my fav dj play.
