On the morning of January 12, 2025, an altercation at an after-hours club near 24th and Binney streets in Omaha escalated into a deadly shooting. Brandon Jones, 37, was asked to leave, later returned armed and reportedly threatened to spray the place. Jones opened fire and wounded four people inside the venue; other patrons returned fire. Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert that recorded at least 14 gunshots found Jones critically wounded. He was taken to Nebraska Medicine and died of his injuries.

The four people shot—Cameron Brown, 32; Derrick Bothwell, 48; Robert Johnson, 55; and Phillip Gaines, 57—were treated at local hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries and were expected to recover. The Omaha Police Department investigated, and Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine later announced no charges would be filed in Jones’s death, concluding Jones initiated the violence and those who fired did so in justifiable self-defense. Authorities cited alcohol and heightened emotions as factors in the escalation.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has additional information about what happened that night, please share what is known.