![]() I was denied entrance originally with no reason as to why, I assumed the place was full. I decided to check this place out, only to find out that was the biggest mistake I could have made. “It shouldn’t have ended up like this, man,” he said.I vacation to Miami every year. “Really sad.”Ī man who said he was Pognon’s bodyguard told WSVN Channel 7 that Pognon was trying to protect his girlfriend and friends when he drew the weapon. “He had some artists we would help promote in the club and do record releases and album releases,” said Otero. He ran Plantation-based Goodtymers Entertainment, described as a record label and talent management company, and worked with such artists as Miami rapper Prospectt, according to Club Play General Manager RJ Otero. Details on who Pognon was were still emerging late Friday, but associates said he was a regular on South Beach. Still, police say Pognon was an active participant in what was a particularly brazen melee. “There’s no way he would have attacked anyone.” “He was not a gangster he was not a bum,” Alexandre said. ![]() Pauline Alexandre, Pognon’s sister, told Miami Herald news partner WFOR-CBS 4 that her brother carried the gun for protection, but would never use it on a law officer. The police department’s Internal affairs office and the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office are investigating. The officer, who has not been named, has been placed on administrative leave - as is routine - for the moment. Investigators later recovered a loaded weapon, presumably belonging to Pognon. The cop, fearing for his safety, fired twice, police said. Police and witnesses said the two men stood with their guns pointed at each other, Wild West style, as the officer demanded that Pognon drop his weapon. Either scared off by Pognon’s weapon or the cop’s badge, everyone took off - except Pognon. A Miami Beach officer heading south on Washington came upon the scene and got out of his cruiser to intervene. Meanwhile, police dispatchers began receiving calls about brawlers with firearms. According to some witnesses, at least one other person involved in the fight was packing a firearm, but cops could not confirm that account. Police and witnesses say Pognon, a Pembroke Pines resident, pulled a gun. ![]() That’s when the combatants took it outside, and the brawl reignited. The fight spilled over into the restaurant’s kitchen before stopping suddenly. One unlucky participant found himself on the ground as another man stomped on him. Surveillance video captured by Med Pizza cameras showed the brawl began with minor shoving but quickly escalated. While waiting for their pizza, two groups of revelers - including Pognon - started mouthing off at each other, possibly over somebody’s girlfriend. “This is South Beach,” said Jimmy Ugucu, owner of the pizzeria, which was trashed during the brawl. ![]() in a neighborhood filled with nightclubs, including Mansion, SoBe Live and Automatic Slims. inside Med Pizza, a popular late-night snack destination at 1240 Washington Ave. And it’s a striking reminder of another recent bloody holiday weekend - Memorial Day, when an allegedly armed man was slain in a hail of police gunfire after driving recklessly just two blocks away from the latest incident.įriday’s saga began about 4:30 a.m. The shooting was a tragic start to an what’s expected to be a raucous New Year’s celebration at the epicenter of South Florida’s nightlife scene. “But came armed and ready to do business.” Alejandro Bello, president of the Miami Beach police union. He died at a nearby hospital a short time later. ![]() Pognon, a 22-year-old talent manager with no prior criminal record in Florida, took two gunshots to the abdomen just before 5 a.m. Police say he refused - and didn’t live to see the dawn. Moments after a fist-swinging, stool-throwing, gut-kicking melee spilled out of an all-night South Beach pizza joint, Marvin Pognon found himself alone with his gun, facing off with a Miami Beach cop. ![]()
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