The first reports of gunshots at Indigo Blu were posted right here on the Prospect Heights Message Board. Since then, newspaper items have focused on gun-toting landlord Clement Calixte, the 67-year-old “Bible-thumping Brooklyn community activist” and ex-auxiliary cop who police say fatally shot a man in around 1 pm at the Vanderbilt Avenue bar space.
Apparently, the altercation was related to the eviction of tenant Alan Henry, proprietor of Indigo Blu. The guy who got fatally shot was helping Alan prep for the move, it seems.
What was Alan’s role in all this? Did he bring it on himself, so to speak?? The Daily News story certainly didn’t cut him much slack:
“Calixte had been in housing court just hours before trying to get Henry – who allegedly owed $19,000 in back rent – tossed from the building.”
” ‘He was supposed to be evicted today,’ the landlord’s wife said. ‘This is what happens when you have bad tenants.’”
Bad tenants? What about Alan’s side of the story? Insuremeeg writes: “Daily News got the story completely wrong… Try as he might, Alan couldn’t make rent because the constant harassment (noise complaint calls to the police, locking him out of his portion of the basement and then shutting off Alan’s lights during a busy night) and he had decided to give up at this location.”
Whatever the truth may be Emily wrote a letter of complaint to the Daily News. The reporter wrote back: “I didn’t write an article sympathetic to the gunman. My editor did…” Well, there’s a smoking gun!
So what exactly caused this altercation anyway? Not sure, but people on the boards say that apparently things were not too placid between Alan and Clement, who repeatedly complained about the noise coming from the bar below the apartment he lived in…
Read the whole backstory on the Prospect Heights Message Board.