Maplewood Mayor Marylee Abrams held an emergency meeting Monday afternoon with the police chief, the city attorney and the city manager to talk about options regarding the public safety risks at Myth Live nightclub.

The meeting came after a patron was treated for a drug overdose and an 18-year-old was shot in the neck in a parking lot outside the club at 3090 Southlawn Drive.

The condition of the 18-year-old, who hasn’t been identified, was upgraded Monday from critical to serious. Police have made no arrests in the Friday night case.

“It concerns me that in one night we had an overdose and a shooting where someone was critically injured,” Abrams said. “The city staff is putting together options today. I’ll be talking with them about that. It will be an agenda item at our council meeting next Monday.”

Will they consider closing the venue?

“I think it’s premature to go there,” she said.

Cmdr. Dave Kvam of the Maplewood Police Department said he hopes Myth will take steps to curb violence.

“We have an expectation that businesses serve as public safety partners, doing their part to prevent problems and provide for the safety and security of their guests and the general public who might be impacted,” Kvam said.

Calls to Myth for comment were not returned Monday.

Aaron Huisenga, of Hugo, worked security at Myth from 2015 to 2017 and said the nightclub took public safety seriously. EMTs were on hand for people experiencing drug overdoses or other health issues.

Patrons were wanded at the door and when things got rowdy, the Maplewood police were notified. Huisenga said there was some security in the parking lot, but that most of it focused on the venue.

He cites two possible reasons for the recent violence after years of nothing more serious than a few fights.

New management wanted the venue’s security to move people in and out more quickly, making the checks less thorough. He also faults unruly neighbors in the area.

“Don’t hate on the venue, because for the couple years I worked there we didn’t have any shootings,” he said.

Myth has made the news a few times since it opened in 2005. A multimillion-dollar renovation transformed the former Just for Feet retail store into a concert venue and dance club with a 3,000 capacity.

For a brief period in 2006 and 2007, Twin Cities auto mogul Denny Hecker, who in 2011 did jail time for conspiracy and fraud, controlled a company that owned the Myth property.

In 2006, a man was shot twice in the abdomen after an altercation in the parking lot.

Myth closed in 2009 and in 2010 owner Michael Ogren was arrested on a felony check fraud warrant from Clark County, Nev. Ogren was eventually sentenced to six months in jail for defrauding an Anoka County bank of $600,000.

In 2011, Mike Miranowski, a former manager at Myth, applied for and received a liquor license from the city with conditions. He reopened the nightclub later that year. On opening night, police responded to several large fights and made multiple arrests.

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