he Mr. Lucky night-club in Lower Queen Anne lost its liquor license for six months last week when the state Liquor Control Board took action at the urging of the mayor's office. A notice posted on the club's front door and a side window cited a number of reasons for suspending the license.
They included serving an underage patron and allowing one or more underage people to frequent an area off-limits to those younger than 21 on April 15.
That's the date when three people were shot and wounded in a crowded hallway inside the club, and the suspension notice charged that the bar "engaged in behavior that provoked conduct which is a threat to public safety."
The suspension notice also charged that the club allowed one of more patrons to engage in behavior that provoked conduct which is a threat to public safety. "This all happened that [same] night," said liquor board spokeswoman Susan Reams.
David Osgood, a lawyer representing the club, is reportedly going to appeal the suspension order, but he did not return a call for comment.
Reams said she hadn't heard of an appeal being filed as of press deadline at the News, but she noted that there is still time for that. "I think they have 20 days to file," Reams said.
Douglas Dunham is another lawyer representing owner Kyriakos Kyrkos in lawsuits, one filed by the Queen Anne man who was paralyzed by a stray shot allegedly fired by a Mr. Lucky patron, and the other by the family of a man beaten to death in the parking lot near the club.
Dunham said Osgood is the liquor-license expert, which is why he would be the one to file the appeal. But Dunham said he didn't think the suspension order was fair and blames the media. "In my opinion, there was a feeding frenzy after this [latest shooting] in the press," he said.
Dunham said he was especially bothered because Kyrkos had vowed to stop staging the hip-hop nights that allegedly prompted multiple instances of violence at the club across the street from KeyArena. "Basically, you're destroying the business, which is probably what people in Queen Anne want," he said.
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