Two men who were with Andrew Kirby and Landon Blackley outside The Other Place nightclub just after 2 a.m. June 30, 2009 when the men were shot and killed by a drive-by shooter gave stirring and, at times, contradictory accounts of the incident to jurors at the capital murder trial of James Richardson.
Matt Blackmon, co-owner of the OP, testified that he helped escort Richardson and his friends out of the club after an altercation erupted inside.
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