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To have a shot at this club, members need to have survived a gunshot. So, Camas police say, a local tattoo parlor owner arranged to have one of his employees graze him with a bullet.

Police say they don’t know any more about the alleged club other than it is apparently based on the Internet. But they do know that they’ve arrested the owner of Momentum Tattoo and one of his employees for staging the shooting.

Billy Joe Beadle, 34, of Camas shot James Hoffman, 38, of Battle Ground, police say, but it wasn’t initially reported that way.

Instead, when police were called to the tattoo parlor at 106 S.E. Weir St. at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday, they were told that a “short, dark-skinned male” had come into the shop several hours earlier and fired three rounds from a handgun at Hoffman. Hoffman showed police where a bullet grazed him on his left side, above his hip, but didn’t break the skin. Hoffman did not seek medical attention, police said.

With the report of a gunman on the loose, every available Camas police officer, the Camas detective squad and the Clark County Sheriff’s major crimes team were summoned to the scene, where they canvassed the neighborhood and launched a two-day investigation.