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Updated: 4:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 | Posted: 11:36 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012

Vault given notice to vacate

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Downtown club given notice to vacate

DAYTON —

The Vault nightclub, 40 N. Jefferson St., has been given a notice to vacate by the building’s landlord.

The club was the scene of a brawl on Thanksgiving night that spilled into the streets and ended in the shooting death of 23-year-old Aundric Kerley, but a lawyer for property owner Jefferson Offices, LLC said the notice has nothing to do with the incident last week.

The three-day notice to vacate, posted on the club’s door on Friday, is based on “some lease agreements they are not abiding by,” according to attorney Ron Kozar. He declined to elaborate on the situation.

He said the club owners have until the end of the day today to decide if they want to vacate voluntarily or if they want to contest the order in court.

When reached for comment Monday morning, club co-owner Hopson Bell said the issue involved an insurance policy and said, “We’re not going anywhere.”

At 2:20 a.m. Friday police were called to a large fight at the downtown nightclub.

The fight in the club spilled out onto the street and police found Kerley in a parking lot near Jefferson and Second streets — just down the street from the night spot — with a gunshot wound.

He was rushed to Miami Valley Hospital where he died sometime before 4:45 a.m., according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.

No charges have been filed in connection to his death.

A second person was treated at the hospital for a laceration to the face after reportedly being struck in the face with a beer bottle during the fight.

Friday morning’s brawl is the second time in four months a disturbance in the club has led to gunfire on the street. Officers responded Aug. 19 to the parking lot across the street from the Vault where one or two people armed with semi-automatic handguns had left the bar and fired at least 15 shots into a crowd. A 26-year-old Dayton man was shot in the foot.

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