UPDATE: Harvey Meissner, president and general manager of The Hidden Door Inc., has told Dallas Voice that security video “showed the assailant to be someone who first walked by the bar on the street before walking along the sidewalk in front of the bar and enter[ing]d the security officer’s car, which had been left unlocked. The officer had just stepped inside the bar for a couple of minutes before going back out and finding the assailant inside his car. He was shot as he approached his car.”
Meissner also said, “The assailant was never inside the bar, and he was not recognized while viewing the security recordings. The police and paramedics arrived on scene very quickly after the 9-1-1 call was made. The crime scene area was taped off, though the bar remained open for business until the usual 2 a.m. closing. Multiple police cars arrived, and all the officers handled the scene professionally and efficiently. A CSI team arrived to photograph everything and fingerprint the security officer’s car, followed by a detective who viewed our video recordings and thanked us for our help. Everything was pretty well wrapped up by 3 a.m.
“Again, it’s important to note that this incident happened outside the bar and the assailant was never in the bar,” Meissner added. He described the suspect as a “black man wearing what appeared to be hospital scrubs or something similar, average to stocky build as I recall from the surveillance video. He fled immediately after the shooting.”
Meissner said that the security guard, who also worked security for The Round-Up Saloon, was not seriously injured. A friend of the security guard told Dallas Voice he was being released from the hospital this afternoon.
UPDATE: According to information from the Dallas Police Department, officers were dispatched to The Hidden Door at “about 12:10 a.m.” When they arrived they “discovered the victim, a licensed security guard, [who] was working at the call location, suffering from gunshot wounds.”
Police reports indicate that the security guard had gone outside to get something from his own vehicle when he saw someone inside the car. He said something to the suspect, who then got out of the car and shot him before running away.
Police said the security guard suffered gunshot wounds to his chest and bicep, and was taken by Dallas Fire Rescue to Parkland Hospital, where he is reported to be in good condition.
No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
A security guard for The Hidden Door, 5025 Bowser St., was shot outside the club shortly after midnight this morning when he confronted a man trying to break into his car.
Fox 4 News reports say that the security guard is in Parkland Hospital with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.
Dallas Voice has contacted Hidden Door Inc. President and GM Harvey Meissner and the Dallas Police Department’s Public Information Office for more information. We will update this post as we can.
