Dec
24
Clearwater, FL — The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a local man at a gentleman’s club in Clearwater early this morning.
PCSO deputies, responding to a call at 2:26 a.m. Thursday of a disturbance at the 24 Karat Gentleman’s Club on 16717 U.S. 19 N. in Clearwater, arrived to find Cecil E. Chapman of St. Petersburg, an employee of the club, holding a man down on the ground in the parking lot.
When deputies handcuffed the man, Jayson Zalewski, they realized he was not breathing. Zalewski, 34, of 8756 Quail Road in Seminole, was taken by ambulance to Largo Medical Center where he later died at 3:36 a.m.
According to the PCSO’s Robbery/Homocide Unit detectives, witnesses say Zalewski became disorderly and was told by employees to leave the club. Once outside, Zalewski tried to pick a fight with another patron. Chapman, 40, stepped in while other employees called police.
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