On March 2, 2016, 28-year-old Marlon Louis Brice of Jacksonville was fatally shot outside the Silver Fox Lounge on West Beaver Street after intervening in a dispute in the club’s parking lot. Another person was wounded in the same incident. Multiple patrons were present when the shooter fled and no arrests have been made.

The Silver Fox Lounge, owned by Milton Howard, has been linked to other deadly violence: a man was killed outside the venue in 2015, and Brandon Green, 21, was shot and killed in 2013 inside Mascara’s nightclub, another Howard-owned establishment. Attorney John Phillips criticized the venues’ security and urged hiring off-duty police to provide a stronger deterrent.

Brice was remembered by family and community as a loving father; he is survived by two children, Ma’Leyah and Jordan Brice, his mother Cynthia Jones, his girlfriend Shellecia Cogdell, and siblings including Jokisha Kisha Brown, who was herself fatally shot months later. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers — did anyone see what happened that night or know who was involved?