Man charged in fatal shooting outside Auburn sports bar in 2013

Two years after three men were killed in a gun battle outside an Auburn sports bar, a 29-year-old Kent man was charged last week with second-degree murder in connection with two of the deaths, according to King County prosecutors.

Cleanthony Baby Ray Jimerson was arrested on a $5 million warrant and booked Friday into the Williamson County Jail in Georgetown, Texas, according to jail records and prosecutors.

Details of the arrest were not known and it was not clear whether Jimerson will fight extradition to Washington.

Since the gunfight early on March 31, 2013, the investigation into the deaths of Nicholas Lindsay, 26, Lorenzo Duncan, 23, and Antuan Greer, 21, has been ongoing, prosecutor’s spokesman Dan Donohoe said.

Detectives encountered a chaotic scene and uncooperative witnesses, which is why it took so long for charges to be filed, he said.

Jimerson is accused of fatally shooting Lindsay and Duncan “execution style” as they lay on the ground, according to charging papers.

A witness shot Jimerson three times, and a relative drove him to the hospital before he was transferred to Harborview Medical Center, the charges say.

According to charging papers, Greer might have been killed by a stray bullet in the gun battle that involved at least five shooters. Detectives recovered casings and live ammunition of five different calibers, including from a .44-caliber revolver, which matched bullets recovered from the bodies of Lindsay and Duncan, the papers say.

The person who shot Jimerson is identified in charging documents as a confidential informant. A second confidential informant, who saw Jimerson shoot Lindsay and Duncan, contacted police in June after learning no one had been charged, the papers say.

Jimerson and several family members were at the tavern that night for a party for Jimerson’s brother, who was to begin serving a prison sentence on a felony gun charge, the papers say.

Meanwhile, the shooting victims were all friends who were attending a birthday party at the bar, according to the charges.

A fist fight began outside the tavern after a woman became upset that another woman had been dancing with her boyfriend.

Jimerson, a felon who is not legally allowed to possess a firearm, is accused of running to his girlfriend’s car, retrieving a revolver and returning to the fight scene, the papers say.

He then stood over Lindsay and Duncan, who had fallen to the ground after being punched by others involved in the fight, and shot both at close range, according to the charges.

One man filmed part of the fight with his cellphone camera, the charges say.