A 21-year-old man was arrested early Sunday after officers monitoring surveillance cameras saw him retrieve a handgun from a vehicle and head toward a fight at a downtown club.
An officer was conducting an inspection of the Ivela hookah lounge in the 400 block of Park Ave. at about 4 a.m. Sunday when a large fight suddenly erupted, police said.
Backup officers were arriving when officers monitoring Citiwatch surveillance cameras saw a man leave the area and go to a 1998 Infiniti and grab what appeared to be a handgun. Officers were alerted and took the man to the ground, and recovered a loaded .40 caliber Smith & Wesson from him, police said.
The man was identified as Aaron Quentin Parham, 21, of the 2800 block of Harlem Ave. He was charged two handgun counts and was being held on $200,000 bond.
The police department's vice unit shut down the hookah bar, as well as two others in the 300 block of Park Ave., for the remainder of the evening. Police said they had received a call for shots fired the night before at around 12:25 a.m.
Parham has no prior arrests, and no attorney was listed in court records.