BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green police are investigating a shooting that happened late Saturday night. A 21-year-old man was shot in the leg near Liquid Bar in the downtown area.
Back in July, a large brawl broke out with dozens of people in the same region.
Bowling Green bar owners and managers all want to make one thing clear:
this violence is not happening inside their bars.
"In a two-block radius, there's all these different places for people to go and I'm just noticing these huge amounts of people coming from other towns just to be in such a lively area," Elyjah Clark, bar manager at Clazel, said.
He adds this violence is mostly happening among groups of people who are in Bowling Green, hanging outside the bars on Main Street.
"Everyone's coming from everywhere and it seems like no one can just leave their issues and attitude at home and have a good time," Clark said.
To help keep customers and staff safe inside of Clazel, Clark said the establishment hired a security team trained for these kinds of crimes.
"Our head of security, Andrew Smith, is diligent in making sure our guys are trained to look out for these things, look out for trouble makers ahead of time and we're pushing to make sure that we're stopping any incidents happening before it gets to that point," Clark said.
While some Bowling Green bars require a college ID to enter, Clark said that's not the case at Clazel. Everyone's state ID is checked at the door and when someone is from out of town, they're just a little more cautious.
"We make sure to charge cover and stuff like that so were really making sure that the BG locals and college students here are having a good time," Clark said.
Other bar owners in Bowling Green have reached out saying they are now looking at making new security changes.
WTOL 11 will continue to provide updates as we learn more.