Cleburne Times-Review
- Cleburne,
TX, USA
- Tuesday, 31 July
2007
Chances owner,
bouncer arrested
A
fight-in-progress call Sunday at Chances Nightclub on North Main
Street led to the arrests of two employees.
Arrested were Jeremy Lynn McDaniel, 30, of Grandview on a charge of
aggravated assault and Chances owner Carmen A. Senese, 43, of Cedar
Hill on a charge of public intoxication.
Officers arrived about 1:13 a.m. to find a man, the apparent victim
of an assault, getting up from the ground in the club’s parking lot,
according to reports. The man appeared dazed and had a laceration to
the back of his head. CareFlite transported the man to John Peter
Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. Details regarding his condition have
not been released.
Witnesses pointed out McDaniel, a bouncer at the club, and told
police he chased the injured man out of the club, according to
reports. McDaniel struck the man in the back of the head with his
elbow, which knocked the man unconscious and caused him to fall and
strike his head a second time on the gravel parking lot, according
to witnesses.
McDaniel told police he and the man engaged in a physical
altercation about 30 minutes before police arrived, which involved
“just words and shoving.” McDaniel told police he kicked the man out
of the bar after the incident. McDaniel later admitted to officer
David Hogan that he did hit the man, according to reports.
Police talked to Senese, who was in the parking lot at the time.
Senese confirmed the earlier altercation between McDaniel and the
injured man but had no explanation as to why he didn’t call the
police or why McDaniel later left the bar to pursue the man.
Police went on to arrest Senese for public intoxication and notified
the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission of the incident as Senese is
the licensee of the bar and was on the scene.
McDaniel remains jailed at the Johnson County Corrections Center on
a $25,000 bond. Senese has been released on a $400 bond.
