Photo by thisisbossi A final amount of $15 million was revealed Friday when the family of Ali Ahmed Mohammed, who was killed outside DC9 a year ago yesterday, filed their lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court. An original report suggested that the civil suit would ask for $10 million in damages for the “vigilante-style death” of Mohammed on October 15, 2010. Despite the DC medical examiner’s finding that the death was a homicide, the actions…
The family of the man who died outside DC9 nearly one year ago is planning on filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the club tomorrow.
About four months after Ali Ahmed Mohammed died outside its doors, DC9 will be returning to regular hours — opening every night of the week, beginning tonight at 5 p.m. A return to daily operations was made possible when the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board ruled to lift all restrictions on the bar this afternoon, specifically the requirement that club ownership pay for a reimbursable police detail whenever they were open.
New year, new hearings in the DC9/Ali Ahmed Mohammed saga: TBD’s Sommer Mathis and City Paper’s Rend Smith were back tweeting about a hearing in front of the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board regarding the club’s future this afternoon. According to both scribes, the Board voted to allow the club to rehire the five employees who were initially charged in the death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed in October. The club will, however, have to continue to maintain a security detail after midnight every night it is open, though that restriction will be revisited at another meeting in February.
Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier made an appearance on NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt this morning for her regular meeting with the newsman to chat about goings-on with the D.C. police department. About three-quarters of the way through the hour, the topic of Lanier’s initial comments about the DC9 case — in which a man was allegedly beaten to death by five employees of the nightclub — came up.
UPDATE: (4:18 p.m.):The U.S. Attorney’s Office has released a statement regarding the medical examiner’s report, stating that they “intend to carefully study these conclusions as part of our legal analysis of this tragic incident.”
UPDATE (3:54 p.m.): The cause of Mohammed’s death, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, was “Excited Delirium Associated With Arrhythmogenic Cardiac Anomalies, Alcohol Intoxication and Physical Exertion With Restraint.”
TBD reports this afternoon that a source with the Ethiopian-American Cultural Center tells them that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled the October 15 death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed outside DC9 a homicide.
Sommer Mathis reports that the public will have to wait a little bit longer to learn what precisely caused Ali Ahmed Mohammed to die near the DC9 nightclub on October 15.
UPDATE: It appears that the club intended to call the incident a “tragic” death, according to a version of the email newsletter which was sent out after the version we received. We just got in touch with Steve Lambert, the booking manager at the Hotel, who confirmed the typo and told us that he couldn’t believe that he made the error. “Everything about this situation is so sensitive,” Lambert said. “This was something I knew I had to spell check and read a few times before I sent it.”
