Travis PryorCleveland City Jail
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Four people were shot after a fight broke out at a bar in Cleveland’s Kamm’s Corners neighborhood, police said.
Travis Pryor, 27, of Euclid, is charged with felonious assault in the shooting. He is expected to make his first court appearance Wednesday.
Pryor, a concealed carry permit holder, told police he fired the shots in self-defense after he was punched at Red Bar on Lorain Avenue near Rocky River Drive.
The fight broke out about 1:30 a.m., police reports say. Pryor told police he got into a fight with a 28-year-old man wearing a Pittsburg Pirates shirt. He said the man punched him in the face during the argument, according to police reports.
Pryor said was afraid for his safety, pulled out his .40-caliber handgun and fired several shots, according to police reports. He dropped his gun in the parking lot and drove off with three others, police reports say.
The 28-year-old man was shot in the stomach and left wrist. Bullets also hit a 25-year-old Lakewood woman in the right foot, a 25-year-old Cleveland woman in the right calf and a 24-year-old Cleveland woman in the right shin, according to police.
Several people told police they went to break up the fight when they were hit by the bullets.
A witness told police that the man who fired the shots left in a sedan. Shortly after, the witness alerted police at the scene that the car drove by the bar as they stood in the parking lot.
Officers jumped into their cruisers and chased after the car, but lost sight of it, police reports say. Not long after, another officer spotted the car at the Sunoco gas station on Warren and Greenway roads.
Police interviewed the Pryor and took gunshot-residue tests from him and a 42-year-old man driving the car, police reports say.
Officers reported finding heroin and cocaine and a digital scale inside the 42-year-old man’s car. He admitted the drugs were his, according to police reports. He was arrested but has not been formally charged.
Police found several bullet casings outside the bar, but were unable to find Pryor’s gun, police reports say.
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