Police seek teens involved in Friday dance club robbery

Cape Girardeau police are searching for a handful of teenagers believed to have participated in a brutal beating and the robbery of a dance club late Friday night.

Jajuan Bell, 19, of 223 S. Hanover St., was arrested as a result of the incident and charged with second-degree armed robbery, but none of the other people involved have been identified, said Cpl. Adam Glueck, spokesman for the police department.

The incident occurred at Club T Zone, 4 N. Spanish St., around 11:30 Friday, when an employee tending the cash till at the dance club was approached by a group of people, Glueck said.

Jajaun Bell

Witnesses described the assailants as being eight teens, Glueck said.

One of the individuals picked up a metal chair and swung it, striking the cashier, and another began beating the victim with trash cans, Glueck said. They seized a small amount of cash from the register and fled the club, Glueck said.

The victim suffered a large laceration to the head and was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Glueck said. Police combed the neighborhood and located Bell, but did not recover the money taken from the cash register, Glueck said.

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