Bar Crowd Kill Man Over A Cigarette

[matcom]

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A crowd outside a Denison Avenue bar beat a Cleveland man to death early Sunday after the man apparently refused someone's request for a cigarette.

Ricardo Leon, 23, of West 67th Street, died shortly after being taken to MetroHealth Medical Center at 2:46 a.m.

Police have arrested a 25-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman in connection with the beating. They have not been charged, Cleveland police spokesman Lt. Wayne Drummond said.

The beating occurred outside Partners Pub at West 62nd Street and Denison Avenue.

Partners Pub owner Bob Schmidt said an employee told him that Leon had been drinking amiably with other customers until someone asked him for a cigarette and he refused. A doorman tried to break up the fight, which spilled out into the street, "but there were too many people for him," Schmidt said.

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[bigwillq]

1. Hey, we have a "Partners" here in CT

but it's a gay bar. Shit like that never goes on there.

Hint, Hint.

[smirkymonkey]

2. What a sick world we live in...

I am not too far from abandoning all hope.

[MrScorpio]

3. Tobacco Kills

Let that be a lesson to him.

[mark414]

5. you jerk!

you just made me blow my coffee out my nose for laughing so hard

now my nose hurts

ow

[Chovexani]

4. It would have to be Cleveland.

I really hate that town.