Commissioners fear bar is Teasers with another name

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - A nightclub with a history of violence plans to reopen using another name.

Horizon Bar and Grill is asking Houston County Commissioners to approve its liquor license request.

Before it closed last year, the establishment was known as Teasers, a strip club.

“I know they had a lot of violence and criminal activity,” Commissioner Brandon Shoupe recalled on Thursday.

He is concerned that Teasers management will operate Horizon which is in his district.

The club’s worst violence came in 2012, when Ryan Clark Petersen fatally shot three people and wounded another.

Then in 2021 another shooting occurred, and the bar closed soon afterwards with announcing the reason.

Commissioner Ricky Herring wants to hear from applicant Mike Kent who was not present when commissioners informally discussed the matter on Thursday.

Several who live in the Wicksburg area, where the bar is situated, are expected to speak against the liquor license application before it is voted on Monday.

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