Police continue to look for the suspect who shot an Army veteran working as a hookah lounge bouncer after he turned away a person trying to enter the Chicago venue.
Austin McAllister’s family struggles to make sense of the tragedy that left some of his children orphans. A mother of the man’s children died from COVID-19 earlier in 2022.
The 38-year-old man was working as security at the end of the year “BYOB New Year’s Eve party” at The Lyons Den in the Ukrainian Village of the Windy City when he was fatally shot by a disgruntled partygoer who was refused entrance to the club, according to ABC 7 News.
The suspect is said to have tried to forcibly enter the establishment with a loaded firearm around 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 1. Gunfire was exchanged between the intruder and two other men. As a result, McAllister was hit multiple times and later rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterward, becoming one of the first to lose their life to gun…
Read the full article here
