Norris Cole's personal chef was shot and killed at a popular Miami nightspot early Tuesday morning, just hours before the Heat are set to face the San Antonio Spurs in a critical Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
According to NBCMiami.com, Antaun Teasely was hit in the upper torso as he sat in the VIP section of the popular South Beach club Mansion just before 4 a.m. The website added club-goers tried to aid the 42-year-old victim, who was later pronounced dead at nearby Jackson Memorial Hospital.
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"Obviously a chaotic scene, once everybody saw the fight break out, it obviously got worse once somebody got shot," said Miami Beach Police spokesperson Bobby Hernandez. No one was else was reported injured in the incident.
"There was like a bang noise, like a gun, and then I looked over, right in the VIP area, everybody started getting down and started running and I was like there's no way on earth that this is like gunshots," club-goer Nefreteri Tomalo told NBCMiami.com. "Everybody just dropped down and started running like there was like a stampede."
Hernandez later told the website the incident occurred after a fight in the club and investigators are still interviewing witnesses.
"A shooting inside a club is very rare, in fact I don't remember the last time we had a shooting inside the club, it might have been more than 10 years ago," he said.
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