Entrepreneurial shooters

Club-crowd brawls late Friday on both sides of the Ohio River were capped off with at least one killing and multiple shootings by one or more thugs armed with a high-powered assault rifle. One Oakley resident was shot up as he drove across the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge. The lethal shooting by assault rifle occurred at Hawaiian Terrace in Mount Airy.

What's next? Suicide bombers?

Veteran Covington Police Lt. Teal Nally said, "I don't know if we have seen anything like this in my time."

Fights had multiplied as hundreds of wannabe club crashers were first turned away from Club Dream in Over-the-Rhine and next from Newport's Syndicate, where the Black Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow had gathered for a dance party. Finally the club manager felt obliged to close, swelling the crowd outside and adding to the fights. Police were called in from across Northern Kentucky.

But while the Entrepreneurs were inside dreaming of a future, some angry entrepreneurial assault rifleman outside was determined to put a sudden end to somebody's tomorrows.

The mass shift to Newport began when Cincinnati Police shooed teens and young adults away from Club Dream after receiving "numerous calls" there was going to be a shooting. Do we now need color-coded alerts like Homeland Security's for our bar scene here? How bad does it have to get before "callers" start naming names?