Has anyone here ever witnessed a shooting?

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22. Witnessed a drive-by shooting outside a club

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I was coming out of an Asian bar called the Singapore Inn in Long Beach, California and the guy going out through the front door just ahead of me was some kind of notorious hoodlum in the Filipino American community. I heard the crack of gunfire and bullets going through wood through the open door and saw him go down. I remember a bullet whistling past my head on its way into the interior of the club. Then there was the sound of squealing tires as the shooter's car took off down the street. The guy who was the target lay on his back in a pool of blood as an ambulance was called. It could have been me if I'd gotten off my stool just seconds earlier and been first through the door. Fortunately, the guy survived after taking a bullet through the chest but I saw him several months later after he recuperated and he was greatly diminished in muscle mass and weight and looked about twenty years older.

It was a pretty unsettling event after coming so close to getting shot myself and I'll admit that it struck fear in my heart. Even after the police arrived I was scared to exit the club. But I overcame my fear and escorted some of the frightened ladies in the club to their cars outside and I guess my sense of chivalry and the desire to not look afraid to the ladies settled me down.

I was also robbed at gunpoint by what seemed to be two tatooed gang members as I exited my car in a dark parking lot in downtown L.A. on my way to another colorful Asian club named Dragon Lady. These incidents took place in about 1990. Fortunately for me, I stopped visiting these dangerous clubs years ago.