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Posted:Ju!06,2015 5:47 PM CDT
Updated:Ju107,2015 9�76 AM CDT
6y Paul Blume CONNECT
MAPLEWOOD,Minn.(KMSP)-Ramsey County prosecutors said a deadly shooting ai Staryate niyhtclub in
Maplewood,Minn.on May 28 was justified when an armed security guard shot and kiiled one of six people
who apparently attacked him.
This means there will be no criminal charyes ayains�the un-named security yuard who pulled the trigger
outside the ciub killing 20-year-old Chou Yang. Yang's loved ones have wanted the armed security guard
charged with murder--but prosecu;ors say what happened that night was a justified use of deadly force.
The surveiilance video from a neighboring business showed authorities just about all they needed to see to
justify the deadly use of force.The security guard was chased out into the middle of the parking lot by a
group of seemingly angry patrons.
He was taken to the yround,punched and kicked.The security guard told authorities he blacked out and
feared for his life.
Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell walked Fox 9 through the video's critical moments.
'9Ys at that time he believes quickly he is in danger,"Schnell pointed out in the video. "His lite is in danger.
He indicates,he tells them to stop.They don't And he fires.That happens within seconds"
In the end,Yang was struck twice and died at a Saint Paul hospital. Police concluded that he was in the
process ofgetting kicked out otthe nightclub for underage drinking.Ser,urity had'nis I.D.and was writing him
a trespassing notice when the confrontation escalated and poured out into the parking lot.
Schnell called the whole thing a senseless tragetly.
"Just getting kicked out oi the bar,thaYs the crazy part,"Schnell said."What really siarted out as a simple,
here is your trespass notice,don't come back and that would've been it,ends up with a young man losing his
life.
Yang's wife was with him at ihe club tnat niyht,and'asked for criminal r.haryes against Ihe still un-named
securiry guard.
Police redar.ted his name from tne public fle.Schnell explained that his life has been threatened numerous
times since the deadly altercalion nearly six weeks ago.And out of concems for his safery,the sergeanPs
name was blacked out.
The 28-year old security guard still works for the private securiry conhactor,JBM patrol and protection,which
was hired by the nighiclub for their 18-plus"sexy mayhem"night on May 28.But JBM no longer works with
Stargate--the hvo parties severed their relationship in the volatile aRermath of that shooting.