The man King County Prosecutors charged last week with two of the three killings at the Sports Page Tavern in Auburn in 2013 will soon be on his way back to stand trial.
“He waived extradition proceedings,” Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s office, said Monday of 29-year-old Cleanthony Jimerson, who waits in a Texas jail.
Arrangements are being made to have him returned to King County, Donohoe added.
Last week the King County Prosecutor’s office formally charged Jimerson with two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Nicholas Lindsay, 24 and Lorenzo Duncan, 23, and, as a convicted felon at the time of the shootings, with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.
Also killed in the early morning melee was Antuan Greer, 21. But according to the affidavit for determination of probable cause, the document in which Auburn Police lay out their case against Jimerson, a stray bullet, fired by an unknown person, likely killed Greer.
In asking for $5 million bail, prosecutor Charles Sergis described to a superior court judge the alleged shooter’s lengthy criminal record, which includes prior adult convictions for assault and negligent driving and several juvenile convictions.
“Despite being a convicted felon, the defendant retrieved a gun from his vehicle in the course of a fistfight outside the Sports Page Tavern on March 31, 2013,” Sergis said. “He then returned to the scene of the fight, where he shot and killed both Nicholas Lindsay and Lorenzo Duncan while they were on the ground, defenseless. … The defendant poses a significant danger to public safety, given the callous disregard for human life he displayed during these crimes. He is likely to fail to appear since he is facing a very lengthy prison sentence if convicted.”
According to what witnesses told detectives, the argument started between two women on the dance floor, one of them among the group that numbered Duncan, Lindsay and Greer.
The physical fight began outside in the parking lot, five minutes after closing, as about 100 patrons milled into the parking lot and security was herding people to their cars to clear the lot.
Loud talk from one of the women involved in the dance floor argument outside led to a fistfight between the men in the two groups, according to the affidavit. According to the affidavit, a few of the fighters went south of the parking lot and out onto Auburn Way North to fight and the rest began moving north through the parking lot, toward where the fatal shots were later fired.
Several witnesses told police that a woman first fired a warning shot into the air to break up the fight. Hearing that, a witness said, a man, perhaps believing that shots were being fired for real, ran to his car across the lot and grabbed a gun. An estimated 20-to-30 seconds after the warning shot, multiple individuals pulled out their handguns and began firing.
Although witness accounts of the fatal shootings vary widely, a number of witnesses identified or described Jimerson as the man who shot and killed the two men.