Witness standing near West 7th club killing victim identified shooters, cops say
An eyewitness provided a detective with the nicknames of two shooters who she said fired upon a man in an October killing inside a Fort Worth nightclub, and the identification is among the evidence supporting murder, gang and mass shooting indictments in the case, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The eyewitness knew Patrique Allen, the man who was slain, and was standing near Allen when, she told the detective, she saw a person who she knows as Lil Steppa shoot at Allen. The eyewitness was less certain about the second shooter. She said that he may be a person who she knows as BaBa. The eyewitness later identified photos of the shooters, who police concluded are Akrell Ross and Jason Nash, each from among the images of six people who look similar.
The shooting left a bullet under a couch cushion and ejected cartridge casings in blood under the couch inside Social LIVV, a club on Bledsoe Street in Fort Worth’s West 7th entertainment district.
Allen, an Eastside Gorillas gang member, died in the club. A man and four women who were shot at the same time survived.
Fort Worth Police Gang Unit officers determined that nicknames that were provided by the eyewitness belong to two Crips set members. Nash had been documented as a Glen Garden Hard Head member and Ross was documented as a Five Deuce Hoova member.
An arrest warrant affidavit that the Fort Worth Police Department released on Monday refers to the gang membership of the victim and suspects but does not describe the killing’s precise motive.
Homicide Unit Detective Tom O’Brien obtained a second six-pack photo identification from a surviving shooting victim who identified Nash as the person she watched open fire inside the club.
A third suspect, Lamar Luster, was arrested on suspicion of murder under the law of parties that holds a person criminally responsible for the conduct of another person if the person solicits, encourages, direct or aids the other person to commit an offense.
Video surveillance shows that at 1:38 a.m. Luster spoke to the two shooters and pulled something that looked like a handgun with an extended magazine out of the front of his pants, according to the affidavit.
One minute later Luster was grouped together with the shooters when he appeared to hand the gun to one of the shooters, the video showed.
Allen had a role in two homicides. He was a possible suspect in a third killing, according to a police source.
This story was originally published January 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM.
