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Gunman sought after killing 21-year-old woman, wounding 7 other people inside northwest Dallas nightclub
Police said the shooting at Pryme Bar occurred during a disturbance between two groups.
Pryme Bar nightclub is on Technology Boulevard, just south of Northwest Highway and between Loop 12 and Interstate 35E.(Kelli Smith)
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Kelli Smith
8:57 AM on Mar 20, 2021
One person was killed and seven others were wounded when a shooter opened fire early Saturday inside a crowded northwest Dallas nightclub, police said.
Police were called about 1:30 a.m. to Pryme Bar, at 10333 Technology Boulevard West, just south of Northwest Highway and west of Interstate 35E, and found eight people shot — four men and four women, all in their 20s, police said.
Officers determined that a disturbance had broken out between two groups inside, and that after a witness tried to intervene, someone pulled out a gun and began firing.
The gunman, described as a Black man in his early 20s with dreadlocks and a blue shirt with a hat and jacket, remained at large, police said.
Daisy Navarrete, 21, of Plano died after the shooting. Conditions of the seven others who were wounded ranged from good to critical, police said.(Judith Gonzalez)
All eight victims were taken to hospitals. Daisy Navarrete, 21, of Plano died, and conditions of the others ranged from good to critical, police said.
Navarrete had just turned 21 Monday and was full of life, said her mother, Judith Gonzalez, also of Plano. She was born and raised in Plano and worked at FedEx but hoped to one day go to nursing school.
“She was a beautiful, happy girl,” Gonzalez said. “She had a lot to live for. But not anymore because now she’s gone.
“This has been very, very hard,” Gonzalez added. “We need the police to get the person that did this. This cannot be left like this.”
Gonzalez said Navarrete had gone to the club “just to have fun.” She said it was the nightclub’s responsibility to make sure the environment was safe, and she expressed anger at both police and Pryme Bar for not taking steps to prevent the violence.
“How did a person get in there with a gun?” Gonzalez said. “The police needs to look at all those details. If they were more careful, we won’t be going through all this nightmare.”
‘I don’t want to die alone’
Piles of blood-stained rags and clothes, shards of glass and bottles of alcohol were still scattered around the two-story club later Saturday morning. A light pink heel that employees said belonged to one of the victims sat near the entrance by a pile of stained clothing.
It had been a busy Friday night with hundreds of partygoers, many of them young women, staff members said.
Crime scene tape and debris littered the Pryme Bar in northwest Dallas on Saturday morning. The staff was cleaning up.(Kelli Smith)
“There was a lot of mayhem,” said employee Jeromy Skinner, who was at the club overnight and came back early Saturday to help clean up.
Skinner said he was near the back of the club when the shooter walked in through a side door and came to blows with another man near the front. The two fought near the entrance, then nine to 12 shots rang out, Skinner said. The music was cut off, and people started frantically shoving one another in a scramble to get out the back doors.
“If anything, it’s weird that I’m alive, because I saw a lady get shot,“ Skinner said, adding that that was the moment he thought, “This is real.”
Police arrived within minutes, Skinner said. He said one wounded woman stumbled toward the bathroom before telling him, “Please help me, I don’t want to die alone.”
Dallas police provided images of a witness and the man believed to have opened fire.(Dallas Police Department)
“That’s going to kill me the rest of my life,” Skinner said. “I was just like, ‘Damn.’”
Skinner said that employees were devastated by the shooting and that he couldn’t sleep after getting home about 5:30 a.m.
Greg Adams, 41, was one of two people cleaning outside the bar Saturday morning. He said he had been outside the building when the shooting happened and saw hundreds of people pile out through the back entrances. People also fled nearby businesses, he said.
Adams said he saw one officer pick up a woman who’d been shot in or near her leg and sprint toward an ambulance.
“It was pandemonium,” Adams said, adding that he had noticed a pool of blood dripping out a side doorway as police poured onto the scene.
A history of violence
Skinner said the shooting wasn’t the first violent incident at the Pryme Bar, though he called it the worst he’d seen recently.
Saturday’s bloodshed followed the fatal shooting of a man early Monday in the parking lot of XTC Cabaret, a nightclub on I-35E near Regal Row and Harry Hines Boulevard and not far from Pryme Bar.
In that case, Gregory Chandler was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene.
David McMillian, 43, was arrested on a murder charge and remained in the Dallas County jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Police ask anyone with information on the Pryme Bar shooting to contact Detective Boz Rojas at 214-681-1786 or
boz.rojas@dallascityhall.com and refer to case #047116-2021.
Crime Stoppers has offered a reward up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case. Tips, which can be offered anonymously, can be provided at 214-373-TIPS