Accused Strip Club Shooter Caught With Stash of Drugs: NYPD

An "unruly" customer at a Queens strip club was caught with crack cocaine, crystal meth, and more than 6,000 Xanax pills after he allegedly fired a gun at a bouncer, then tried to run away when police officers in the area chased after him, police said. 

Officers were on patrol by the Club Lit strip club on Steinway Street at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday when 29-year-old Aaron Dockery and a friend were kicked out for acting belligerently, according to police. 

Dockery allegedly asked to be let inside alone, and when the bouncers rejected him, he threatened to "shoot up the club," police said, citing witnesses. 

He ran across the street to a parking lot, took a 9-mm semi automatic handgun from his 2010 Dodge Charger and returned to the club, firing one round into the air, according to police. He then ran back toward his car, where two police officers who had heard the gunshots were waiting.

When he saw the officers, Dockery ran in the other direction, and one of the officers chasing him on foot saw him throw the gun away under a parked car, according to police. The other officer followed the suspect in a marked police car and Dockery was captured steps later.

He had a loaded gun on him, and police found a bag of crack cocaine and ammunition in plain view from outside his vehicle, police said. A search turned up more cocaine, crystal meth and 6,550 Xanax pills. 

Dockery was arrested on multiple drug and weapons charges, along with reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, menacing and obstructing governmental administration.

Attorney information for Dockery wasn't immediately clear. 

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