--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
Why? Are there restrictions on their liqour License?
If the facts of how this fight went down in the AP Press are true,
> the owners of The Deep have a big problem regarding civil liability
> for lack of security:
>
>
> Man slain; family looks for answers
>
> Pinelands graduate, 25, killed in Asbury dispute
> Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/16/07
> BY MICHELLE SAHN
> STAFF WRITER
>
> ASBURY PARK Carol and Charles Zemartis of Tuckerton planned to
> awaken early Monday to drive to Philadelphia, where Charles' 92-
year-
> old mother would be laid to rest.
>
> But the Ocean County couple missed the funeral as they tried to
> learn more about the Sunday evening homicide in Asbury Park that
> claimed the life of one of their grandchildren, an Iraq veteran and
> graduate of Pinelands Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor.
>
> On Monday, police were trying to determine exactly what happened to
> James C. Morrison, 25, of the New Gretna section of Bass River in
> Burlington County, who was pronounced dead Sunday evening at Jersey
> Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. The case is proceeding as
> a homicide investigation, authorities said.
>
> "It doesn't make sense," said Morrison's grandmother, Carol
> Zemartis. "I don't think there was anyone who did not like James.
> It's such a thing. All night long, you're just picturing . . . and
> when you can't get any information, that's the worst thing. You
> think someone's going to get away with this."
>
> Morrison's death was the first homicide in Monmouth County this
> year. In 2006, there were 16 homicides in the county, including
> eight in Asbury Park.
>
> Along with friends, Morrison went to Deep, a club on the boardwalk,
> near the intersection of Second and Ocean avenues in Asbury Park on
> Sunday, authorities said.
>
> While the events of that evening are still being investigated,
there
> was an argument and a fight, "which at some juncture, proceeded
> outside," said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter
> Warshaw.
>
> "The exact role that Mr. Morrison played in any of this remains
> under investigation," said Warshaw. "Police are still working to
> piece together precisely what happened."
>
> But at 5:50 p.m., Asbury Park police received a call indicating
that
> Morrison had sustained injuries, he said.
>
> They responded and found the 25-year-old on the ground in front of
> the club, said Warshaw. Morrison was taken to the hospital in
> Neptune, where he was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m.
>
> Warshaw said based on the findings so far, Morrison's death does
not
> appear to be gang-related.
>
> Caroline O'Toole, the general manager of Deep, said the incident
> happened on the sidewalk outside the club, but she did not know any
> details about what took place.
>
> Morrison's mother, Lorrie Morrison, 44, of Little Egg Harbor, said
> her son and his friends arrived at the club around 5 p.m. because
> they wanted to hear one of the bands that was set to play.
>
> She said she was being given little information by authorities
about
> what happened, but had talked to her son's friends.
>
> "They were sitting at the bar and had a couple of drinks," she
> said. "There was something where guys were arguing and, out of the
> blue, one guy threw a bar stool at my son and hit him in the head."
>
> She said her son was struck by a stool a second time, this time in
> the side of his body, she said.
>
> Lorrie Morrison said her son and his friends were asked to leave
the
> club, and her son was dazed, so his friends helped him out.
>
> "Out of the blue someone came from behind . . . and hit him in the
> head," she said.
>
> His friends heard a loud crack, and her son fell to the ground, she
> said.
>
> Lorrie Morrison said her son grew up in both Bass River and Little
> Egg Harbor and graduated from Pinelands Regional.
>
> She said her son, her oldest child, had many friends and loved to
go
> to concerts. He played guitar.
>
> He spent several years in the Navy and was stationed on the USS
> Bataan during the war in Iraq, she said.
>
> She described him as thoughtful and said he always ended
> conversations by saying "I love you, mom." He was also close to his
> younger sister and his grandparents, she said.
>
> Carol Zemartis said her grandson was a courteous young man.
>
> "You couldn't ask for a nicer grandson," she said. "In the
> beginning, you're so upset it's just grief. But after you start to
> get angry, because whoever did it, it was intent to kill."
>
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