A stray bullet severely injured the owner of a popular underground Bushwick music hall while he stood in front of the venue last week — and although he survived, his business hasn’t.
A bullet shattered the left arm and lodged in the abdomen of Yoni David, the owner of Big Snow Buffalo Lodge Big Snow’s owner, at about about 9:30 pm on July 17, as the bands Courtship Ritual, Lost Gloves, Esparza and FASANO were playing a show inside the club at 89 Varet St. between Graham Avenue and Humboldt Street.
David had gone outside to check on a disturbance, then heard several shots, according to the police report. A moment later, he realized that he had been hit.
Now, the still-hospitalized entrepreneur says he is closing for good — and tweeted that fact on Sunday morning to make sure acts he had booked do not show up.
“If you had a show booked here, it’s canceled,” he wrote. “We’re closed.”
The shooter, who he believed was standing in front of the Lindsay Park housing projects, ran off and has not been found.
The promoter added in a Facebook post that he will be in the hospital for a while, and that he was humbled by the outpouring of support he had received in social media.
“I’ll love you all forever,” he wrote to his supporters.
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