EJ’s Lounge facing 4 possible operating citations

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

Law enforcement units have responded to a bar on Airway Road 66 times since June of 2016 for incidents ranging from alarm calls to gunfire.

EJ’s Lounge is now facing four citations involving operation of business, according to News Center 7’s Mike Campbell.

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Members of the State Patrol’s Ohio Investigative Unit recently visited the business. The charges are considered administrative, not criminal, and they go against the business’s liquor license and could lead to a revocation of a liquor license.

The bar is also where a dangerous shootout involving high-powered weapons occurred Jan. 17.

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Surveillance video from that night shows people in one vehicle leaving the parking lot and firing at other people and vehicles that were still in the lot.

Police suspect this incident led to groups of people chasing each other and firing more shots in Dayton early the next morning.

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“I’m coming up Airway Road and I’m shaking all over,” a person said in a 911 call from the night of the gunfire.

“I looked behind me and I could see like, gunshots, it was right behind me and I saw a bunch of orange flashes and it sounded like someone was beating my car.”

Riverside police discovered three vehicles hit by bullets, one with blood inside and nearly 18 bullet holes.

No arrests have been made so far and officers say no one has been especially cooperative with their investigation.

We are working to find out what happens if the alleged violations are confirmed as well as what owners and managers of the bar have to say about this new development.

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