Colorado strip club where Ja Morant flashed gun has violent history

The Denver-area band club area Memphis Grizzlies bsafeguard Ja Morant alive streamed himself aflame a gun is endemic by the wife of the town’s ambassador — and in contempo years has become the armpit of blood-soaked abandon admitting its A-lister clientele.

Founded in 1982, Shotgun Willie’s in Glendale, CO, is majority-owned by Deborah Dunafon, 72, wife of Mayor Mike Dunafon, 68 in accordance to annal and accessible profiles.

The agitate collective asserts to be “the absolute destination for the avant-garde admirer looking to abstract off anytime steam,” in accordance to its website, with 200 affliction entertainers which have absorbed the brand of CeeLo Green, Dave Chapelle, and Denver Broncos and Nuggets players.

Yet alike with its high-profile buying and deep-pocketed customers, Shotgun Willie’s has begin itself in the crosshairs of tragedy and controversy.

“We’ve had a lot of ball at which club, and we’ve had two humans dead at which club,” answered an insider. “We’re not dirty … we choose to accumulate it safe, about I anticipate there’s anytime carelessness activity on there for sure.”

A 2020 cutting at the club larboard two dead, including the unhinged attacker, and three injured. A Kroger controlling died all through a 2019 fistfight — afterwards an agent allegedly put the man in chokehold.

“I’ve absolutely apparent further fights there than I have at any added club,” one ballerina said. “It’s alone the arena there.”

In a adverse irony, the advocate arresting the band club in a blameworthy afterlife accusation filed by the Kroger executive’s ancestors died in a club employee’s car in Shotgun Willie’s parking lot aftermost October, anon afterwards he chock-full by to comedy cards and get drinks with a dancer, a local CBS accessory reported.

The advocate appeared acutely bagged to the dancer, bidding a agents affiliate to booty him home, afore bringing the advocate alternate to the club and ecology him in his car. He after chock-full breath or responding, and paramedics transported the advocate to a hospital, area he was once arresting dead.

“We’ve been all over 40 years, so from time to time, being happens,” Deborah Dunafon said. “The accomplished brace years has been nothing.”

Given the club’s blood-soaked history, the actuality which Morant was once affected a gun all over the girls in the VIP allowance affronted the staff.

“We’ve already had a cutting and a cutting … one of our aperture guys was once in the hospital for 6 months,” a 2nd ballerina fumed. “The actuality which [Morant] didn’t get patted bottomward by our safety afore he came in pissed everyone off.”

Glendale cops advised Morant afterwards he live-streamed himself aflame a gun in the club, about bent there was once not abundant affirmation to allegation him with a crime.

Deborah Dunafon informed The Post which Morant was once arrested by safety afore entering the club, about acclaimed which he was once accompanied by his own able guards who may have been armed.

“He did not appear in with a gun,” she said.

Mayor Mike Dunafon brushed off apropos about Morant aflame a gun in an account with The Post, calling him “a gentleman” and accursed the abandon at Shotgun Willie’s and his burghal as actuality allotment of a “systemic” botheration above the country.