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Shooting
at bar leaves 2 injured
BY PAT KIMBROUGH
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – Police on Monday were investigating a weekend shooting at
a bar that left two men wounded.
Offi cers were called to
the Boom Boom Room at 1205 Elgin Ave. just after 3 a.m.
Saturday after someone reported shots fired at the establishment.
Police found two men – Dimas Carrasco-Avilio and Nicolas Corona – with gunshot wounds. They
told police someone started throwing beer bottles at them when they were
leaving the bar at closing time. The person then began shooting and a round
struck Corona,
27, in the upper right thigh.
Avilio went to check on Corona’s condition and was then hit in the
upper right thigh by a bullet.
Neither of the men, described as friends by police, could give investigators
a description of the suspect or a possible reason for the assaults.
“(The victims) were cooperative. They just had no clue who
the guy was,” said police spokesman Lt. Ken Steele. “It wasn’t somebody that
they recognized.”
No one at the scene of the crime could provide any information about the
suspect, who apparently left the bar on foot after the shooting.
Corona and Carrasco-Avilio
were taken to High Point
Regional Hospital.
Their wounds were not life-threatening.
During the past two years, most of the calls police have responded to at the
Boom Boom Room, which is in southwest High Point
near the Juanita Hills Homes housing project, have been for public disturbances,
noise violations, motor- vehicle thefts and medicalassistance
calls, Steele said.
Prior to Saturday, officers had been called there one other time since
February 2005 for an assault- with-a-deadly-weapon call, Steele said.
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‘(The victims) were cooperative. They just had no clue who
the guy was.’
Lt. Ken Steele
High Point
police spokesman
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