Club Entourage owner Clyde Richardson left abruptly after the city council meeting Monday night. There wasn’t much he could say as the council scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday to possibly revoke the club owner’s business license.

Following a 20-minute executive session, where Selma Chief of Police William T. Riley reportedly laid out information of why the hearing is needed, the council returned and voted unanimously.

This follows the same set of procedures the council has used in the past year to close downtown clubs The Loft and 12th Stone. Both clubs — it was shown during the hearings — had become problem areas for police officials with the repeated calls for response to violent and deadly incidents.

Club Entourage was the sight of a shootout early Friday, June 1, where a total of six people were shot and one was killed.

“Our only thought is that safety is paramount, not only for the citizens but also the patrons,” Selma City Councilman Corey Bowie said. Bowie represents Ward 8, where Club Entourage is located and where The Loft and 12th Stone were located. “We are going to go into the hearing, analyze the data that is presented to us and make a concrete decision from there for the betterment of the community.”

The hearing is set for Tuesday, June 20 at 5 p.m. in the city council chambers inside Selma City Hall.

“We recommended the business license revocation hearing because of the number of ongoing incidents we have had at that particular establishment over the years,” Riley said after the meeting. “We are not treating this club any differently than we have treated other clubs in the past.”

Riley, who did not provide any details of the executive session or the letter he presented to the council, said his department has continued to monitor clubs, and will continue to do so.

“I think this is the right thing to do, regarding public safety,” Riley said. “This hearing is to consider the revoking of the business license because of the totality of the incidents that have occurred at the club.

“We are often told ‘well, these things happen at clubs and sometimes we can’t control what happens outside the club,’” Riley said. “However, these things are happening because of the club. We are constantly having to respond and the public is getting hurt.”