Man charged with firing gun outside chaotic West Side club

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Alexis Dumas / Photo from the Chicago Police Department.

A man has been charged with firing a gun outside an overcrowded nightclub early Friday on the West Side, the same bar where a woman was charged with DUI for attempting to flee when chaos erupted inside and outside.

Dowan Hasley, 25, of the 4700 block of West Race Avenue, was charged with one count each of reckless discharge of a firearm and obstructing identification, according to police.

Hasley was identified as the person who fired a handgun into the air about 1 a.m. on Feb. 3 outside a club in the 4400 block of West Madison Street, police said. When officers arrested him Sunday, Hasley allegedly gave a false identification.

A woman was also charged with felony DUI after hitting another patron when chaos broke out in the parking lot of the overcrowded club.

Alexis Dumas, 29, of the 800 block of North LaTrobe, was charged with felony aggravated DUI and misdemeanor DUI, and cited for driving on a suspended license, police said. She was ordered held on $50,000 bond, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s office.

Police were called about 1 a.m. to Brick’s Sports Bar and Grill at 4422 W. Madison after a patron called to complain of dangerous overcrowding, Harrison District Lt. Steven Sesso said. When officers arrived they were not allowed inside and the doors were locked, trapping patrons inside.

Someone eventually got the doors open and patrons streamed out, Sesso said. Police counted 273 people leaving the 99-person capacity club, but had to stop the count because a man was firing shots in a parking lot across the street.

The man then got into his 1998 Lexus and drove off, Sesso said. He crashed at 10 S. Kostner Ave. and took off on foot, temporarily escaping arrest, though police recovered a gun in the car.

Nobody was wounded.

At the same time, two women, including Dumas, were fighting and Dumas got in her car and tried to leave, police said. Several patrons tried to stop her, resulting in her crashing into several parked cars and hitting one patron, who was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in good condition.

“This location is a problem in our district,” Sesso said, adding that police had been called there on several other occasions because of overcrowding.

He said the bar has a Consumption on Premises-Incidental Activity License, which requires that serving alcohol be secondary to another activity, in this case serving food. When police searched it, they found no evidence of any food being served except a single box of chicken wings in the refrigerator.

The owner was cited for reckless conduct for locking the doors, and for violating the liquor license, Sesso said. He said she had been cited previously for the same license violation.