The chief said the investigation is continuing.
Shots were fired just before 1:30 a.m. March 22 outside the Dixie Highway bar and Brown Jr., 55, of Pleasanthill Drive in Cincinnati, was later found dead.
A fight began inside the bar, then spilled out into the parking lot where several fights began, according to police
A cell phone video taken at the scene has been used to identify people to question, and detectives spent weeks interviewing witnesses.
Police said there were more than 100 people in the parking lot, but not all of them were involved in a fight.
According to the police report, Brown was found dead in the parking lot and had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
Dickey said, “given the circumstances of this case, detectives had to interview a large number of people. They have worked unceasingly to bring this to a conclusion.”
Last week Fairfield City Council objected to the renewal of the liquor permit at Wise Guys.
Dickey could not say exactly how many times police have responded to Wise Guys.
In addition to the homicide, “over a one-year period, we’ve responded to numerous fight calls, two assaults, a rape case, two narcotics complaints, weapons violations and intoxicated individuals,” he said. “It’s routine on the evening shift to be out at that bar. The bar attracts the kind of crowd they want to attract. That’s part of the problem.”
If the bar contests the action, their representatives and the city will have a chance to make their cases at a hearing before the Division of Liquor Control at the Ohio Department of Commerce. That decision can be appealed to the Ohio Liquor Control Commission, then to Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
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