Suspect sought after basketball coach becomes 'victim of a random crime' in fatal nightclub shooting
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Police have released photos of a man who they say is a suspect in a fatal weekend shooting in downtown Calgary.
On Sunday, police were called to Junction Underground nightclub just before 2:45 a.m. for reports that someone had been shot outside the bar, which is located on Eighth Avenue southwest. At that time police transported a man to hospital where he died shortly later.
An autopsy identified the man as 31-year-old John Mitchell Smith Jr.
Police say he was a Calgarian who had moved a few years ago from Washington to play college basketball.
They believe Smith left the nightclub with a woman around 2:30 a.m. when two men, who were loitering outside, started making unwanted sexual advances and physical contact with the woman.
Smith intervened, according to police, and a man shot him. He also shot the man who was with him, who later drove himself to Foothills Medical Centre. Police say he is not co-operating with the investigation.
Police say the shooter fled the scene east along Eighth Avenue S.W.
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