COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Five days after a fatal shooting on the East Side, an afterhours nightclub has been shut down for good.

According to the Columbus City Attorney’s Office, the city secured a temporary restraining order to shutter the Luxxe Lounge, an after-hours club located on Beechwood Avenue, just off East Livingston Avenue.

“These violent, dangerous places, they sometimes are front and center in stemming the tide of violence,” Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said.

The club has been operating without a liquor license, has been involved in illegal after hours sales, and several gun-related police runs, the release said.

“That’s a recipe for where we have to aggressively step in and shut a place down because it’s a threat not only to the people that visit there, that work there, but then, of course, the surrounding neighborhoods,” Klein said. 

In 2017, the city filed a lawsuit against the owners of a different club at the same location. The club was vacated but new owners moved in a few years later.

Since Jan. 1, 2023, police have responded to 11 calls at the club, including two for shootings, one person with a gun and one fight.

“You got alcohol, you have guns, violence, all those things kind of cultivating in an after hours location,” Klein said. “It becomes a very dangerous place for the people that are working there, that are going there, and of course to the neighbors that live around there. So, that’s why these after hour places are such a high cause for concern because nothing really good comes from them except a lot of dangerous and violent things that threaten a lot of folks.”

The closing comes five days after 39-year-old Dante Gamble was killed outside the club early Sunday morning. Police said Gamble was in the parking lot of the club just after it closed, when shots were fired and hit Gamble.

Gamble was taken to Mount Carmel East hospital in critical condition but pronounced dead at 6 a.m. There is still no information on the suspect and the investigation is ongoing.