DAYTONA BEACH — An Ormond Beach man got into an argument with bouncers at a strip club this morning and yelled racial slurs at them, police said, but when Jace David Keeler shouted the racial comments to people in a passing car someone shot him in the stomach.
Keeler, 21, was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center with a gunshot wound he suffered at 2:32 a.m. today near Diamond Dolls strip club at 301 Madison Ave., said police spokesman Jimmie Flynt.
According to the report of the shooting, Keeler was found lying on the ground near a utility pole and claimed a bouncer shot him. Police contacted the bouncers who told police Keeler got into an altercation with them earlier in the morning because Keeler was trying to sell drugs in the club.
The bouncers escorted Keeler out. Once outside, Keeler danced in the street and slapped his belt on the pavement yelling racial slurs at the bouncers, police said. Keeler kept putting his hands in his pocket as if he was going for a gun but never produced a weapon.
A black Chevrolet Caprice approached Keeler as he walked west on Madison Avenue and the driver asked Keeler what he was saying. Keeler then told the car’s driver, “I am not talking to you. I am talking to the (racial slur deleted) at the club,” police said.
The driver of the car then stepped outside and appeared to fire in the air but the adult club bouncers heard the shot and saw Keeler fall to the ground, the report states