Passenger in deadly club shooting speaks

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Large Crowds gathered for a concert at Cloud 9 Saturday night. Tempers flared after everyone inside was forced to leave.  Soon after the exodus, shots rang out at 38th and Georgetown.

Nate Brown was sleeping in the backseat of a car that was hit.

Bullets that killed two of his friends missed him.

"Police said it was a miracle that I wasn't dead," Brown said moments before describing the aftermath. "Bullet holes ( were) in the door and the window was shattered but nothing touched me. I must have a purpose."

Andre and LaVonne Harrod, brothers just three years apart, didn't survive the early Sunday morning shooting.

Andre, a senior at Ball State and a graduate of Tindley Charter School.

Saturday night, the three were among the crowd at Cloud 9 for a concert featuring a popular rap artist, Yo Gotti.

But the performer never took the stage.

Club managers blame Pike Township Fire officials.

A spokesperson for the club declined to talk on camera but told 24 Hour-News 9 Pike Fire Officials ordered everyone out because to many people were inside.

Club capacity is 1, 113.

"It's for the safety of the people who work there and come to enjoy the entertainment ," said Pike Township Fire Cheif Gerald George.

Managers with the club say fire officials didn't ask to see their tally counters. Managers insisted they were not at capacity but a large crowd had gathered in the parking lot trying to get in.

Monday afternoon, a fire inspector took measurement to make sure Cloud 9's capacity is up to code.

Back where our story began, Brown said initially he was upset about losing money he spent on the concert ticket.

But that loss is nothing compared losing a friend he's known since high school.

He described Andre as "a fun loving guy. He was just a good person.

And it is bad something like this happened to somebody like that."

Police are still looking for the person who fired the shots.

Once fire officials ordered everyone out of the establishment,club goers were bit disgruntled.

There was some pushing and shoving. It's unclear if that had something to do with this shooting.

A Jon B concert set for Friday is still scheduled to go on.