(COLORADO SPRINGS) – Police are still searching for a suspect in a shooting outside a daiquiri and cocktail lounge in Colorado Springs. Three people were shot and now the local business owner is sharing what she remembers from that night.
The Luxury Daiquiri Lounge near Colorado Springs’ Knob Hill neighborhood has only been open for a little over a year. Latrina Ollie is the owner of the lounge and wants to make sure the community knows the incident happened outside in the parking lot.
One dead after shooting last weekend in Luxe Daquiri Lounge
In the early morning hours of Saturday, March 30, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) responded to the shooting at the lounge on Galley Road. When they arrived, officers saw several cars driving away.
“Our weekends, those are our busier days,” Ollie said.
Ollie has owned the lounge since February 2023 and said last Saturday was a first for her and the new lounge.
“I was in the back room of the office doing some paperwork at the time and I was watching everything in real time on the cameras,” Ollie explained. “It was an unfortunate situation.”
Two victims were taken to the hospital and one, later identified as 22-year-old Jahiddi Williams of Colorado Springs, died from his injuries.
Courtesy: Colorado Springs Police Department
“At the end of the day, someone lost their child, someone lost their father,” Ollie said. “There are people who are traumatized by this event.”
Now the owner is doing everything she can to assist CSPD’s investigation and locate the suspect, while continuing to welcome the community to her small business.
“It’s unfortunate, especially as a business owner, when things happen that are out of your control,” Ollie explains. “I’d rather listen to reviews about my drinks or something we have control over. Stuff in the parking lot with people who weren’t even here that night, it’s hard.
The Luxury Daiquiri Lounge is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and an external security team works on weekends.
“Unfortunately one of them got shot,” Ollie said. “He is still in hospital recovering from his wounds.”
The owner said several customers took the victims to the hospital the night of the shooting.
“I think it took about forty minutes for the ambulance to arrive,” Ollie explained. “I heard some of them say they weren’t waiting, and Memorial Hospital is right down the street, so they thought they could get there faster than the ambulance.”
The owner believes that the lounge is located in a safe neighborhood, but is changing the lounge policy following the shooting.
“We are now a 30+ lounge, which many people are familiar with from when it was a business,” Ollie said. “We would like to welcome these customers back to the company.”
The investigation is ongoing and CSPD has asked anyone who may have witnessed or has information about the shooting to contact CSPD at (719) 444-7000. To remain anonymous, contact the Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers tip line at (719) 634-STOP (7867).
This is the ninth homicide in the city of Colorado Springs in 2024. At that point in 2023, there had been five homicides.
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