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Four Stabbed in Everyday Struggle After <em>Notorious</em>
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Billy Parker
Published Jan 18, 2009
Modified Jan 18, 2009
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Much like the tragic story that had just been seen on screen, an afterparty for the opening night of Notorious turned violent Friday when four men were stabbed inside a Brooklyn nightclub. A chaotic scene emerged as one clubgoer described it, "I didn't know what happened, but whenever people start screaming and running out of a club it means someone either has a gun or a knife, and I wasn't going to stick around to find out which it was."
21-year-old Antwione Jones is in critical condition at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center after the incident at DJumbala in East Flatbush. Jones is engaged and has a 2-year-old-daughter with his fiancée. The three other victims are all in stable condition.
DJumbala had claimed on its MySpace page that it was the official after party for the opening night of the biopic depicting the life and death of Brooklyn-born rapper Notorious B.I.G. But Fox Searchlight told the press that the party had no connection to the film.
Reports from the scene of the crime provided murky details with what exactly went down to provoke the incident. Police told the News in reference to the victims, "We're not getting too much information out of them." An anonymous witness simply told the paper, "It looked like an ugly rodeo inside."
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