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Cranberry Police Investigate Gunshot Fired Outside North Park Lounge

No one is injured, according to a restaurant manager. He said police took a person into custody after the early-morning incident.

 

No one was injured after someone fired a gun in the parking lot behind the North Park Lounge early Sunday morning, according to a restaurant manager.

Manager Scott Brady said he was on duty at the restaurant at around 2 a.m. when he and two members of the lounge’s security team heard a gunshot fired from the back parking lot of the Bamboo Bar. The bar is a separate open-air section behind the main restaurant.

Brady said he and security members immediately called 911.

“Police were here within a minute,” he said.

Brady said no one was injured in the incident. He said it involved two people in a far corner of the lower back parking lot, an area surrounded by trees.

“It was as far away from anyone as you can get,” he said.

Brady said police told him they took a person into custody. He said the bar's bouncers were involved in securing the area after the incident, but he declined to elaborate.

“They were on top of the situation,” he said.

A Cranberry Police spokesman could not be reached. Officials at Butler County's emergency dispatch center confirmed they sent police to the restaurant Sunday morning.

The North Park Lounge and Bamboo Bar both opened at its regular time Sunday. Brady said the incident is unusual for the popular locally-owned restaurant and bar on Route 19, in an area considered to be safe.

“This is the first time this has happened,” he said. “Nothing like this ever happens.”

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Were you a witness to Sunday’s incident? Were you surprised that it happened at a Cranberry establishment? Please leave your thoughts or information in the comment section.

Related Topics: Bamboo Bar, Crime, Deckhouse, Gunshot, North Park Lounge, Shooting, and cranberry police

Patricia Joseph

9:01 am on Monday, July 23, 2012

What is wrong with BRADY? doesn't he know about the woman who DISAPPEARED in the 1980's after leaving this establishment, and then later found dead?

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Cece Peterson

11:23 am on Monday, July 23, 2012

I'm not sure what you're upset about. Do you think the NPL is a nuisance bar because of something that happened 30 years ago? Was Mr. Brady even alive back then, that he would even have knowledge about this supposed disappearance? (I can't find anything about it online.) Was NPL even OPEN back then?

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From Cranberry

11:57 am on Monday, July 23, 2012

On 9/8/1989 Peggy Vogel was found dead after leaving the "Timeout Sports Bar"...not the NPL.

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J. Frederick

11:54 pm on Monday, July 23, 2012

I can verify that it was Time Out Sports Bar when Peggy Vogel was murdered. If I remember correctly she was stabbed to dead on the property next to the bar, which was being developed at that time. The man who was charged and convicted of her murder lived in my neighborhood. I knew the man's brother who live at the residence prior to him. It is my understanding the the man who murdered her asked her to dance and she refused, he followed into the lot next door when she left the bar. Exactly what happen from there I don't remember or may have never heard. Not a lot of people I've mentioned the Vogel murder to over the years knew anything about it. And there have been other murders in Cranberry Twp. over the years and not necessarily at a bar. I lived in the area since 1970 was I was very young.

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