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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City license regulators have ordered a 10-day shutdown of the Sportsman's Inn as punishment for failing to control its premises the night seven weeks ago that a patron shot and wounded three people.

The Board of Licenses voted unanimously Wednesday to suspend all eight of the strip club's licenses, including its hotel license and its licenses to serve alcoholic beverages and to stage live entertainment.

The board made the suspension effective Friday to allow management time to empty its rooms of guests.

On March 24, according to evidence presented at a board hearing, William Quaweay, 22, of Cranston, a boyfriend of a stripper at the inn, got into an altercation and was beaten by three or four men. He allegedly left the inn, returned 15 to 20 minutes later with a handgun and shot three people. A bullet struck the boot of a fourth person who was not injured.

There is an arrest warrant charging Quaweay with five counts in the shooting, but he has not been apprehended.

William A. Gosz, lawyer for the inn, could not be reached for comment.

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Beaz said:

I thought the suspect's name was Jonathon? This article has him listed as William... Curious.

Link | May 14, 2009 10:04 AM
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