It looks like a grand jury is getting ready to announce indictments in the Great White club fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people last February.
I didn’t blog about it at the time, but one of the news reports about the fire contained one of the most disturbing claims I think I’d ever read. According to some witnesses, people who tried to exit the club through a side door after the fire started were told they would have to exit through the front because the side exit was restricted to band members only.
Update: Fox News reports that three people it does not name have been indicted in the club fire case.
Update #2: The club’s two owners, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, and Great White manager, Dan Biechele, were each charged with 200 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Source:
Judge: Grand Jury Has Issued Report On Nightclub Fire. WHDH-TV, December 9, 2003.