MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Frayser bar that was the scene of a mass shooting that killed two people and injured three last week is being closed as a public nuisance until further notice.

Law enforcement and city government officials made the announcement Wednesday at Infiniti Sports Bar & Grill on 2536 North Watkins Street.

“The disruption of peace in this neighborhood, today it ends,” said Mayor Paul Young outside the bar. “We’re taking decisive action to shut it down.”

Police Chief C.J. Davis called the club a “persistent hotspot for criminal activity.”

“This business is a nuisance, and as long as it continues to operate in that manner. It will not be allowed to operate,” said Chief Davis.

Davis said MPD responded to 93 calls for service at the club since 2023, including homicides, shots fired, and armed parties. In the first five months of 2025, Infiniti Sports Bar has been the scene of 26 incidents, including four homicides, one of which was the city’s first homicide of the year.

“This is not a one-and-done,” Davis said. “There are other properties on our radar, and more actions are coming. Every business owner in this city has a choice: be part of the solution or be held accountable.”

As officials were setting up for a press conference in front of the club on Wednesday, police were making an arrest for illegal alcohol sales, an officer informed Davis.

Police said they discovered that the club manager, John Curry, 57, was storing and selling liquor without a license. Curry has been charged with Driving While License Suspended/Cancelled/Revoked, Possession of Unstamped Liquor Over 3 Gallons, Unlawful Sale of an Alcoholic Beverage, Storage of Liquor For Sale, and Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages Without a License.

“It alarms me that this has been a repeat type of action that’s been taking place in our city,” said Reverend Roosevelt Jackson, Jr., Assoc. Minister King Solomon Baptist Church.

WREG has reported on several incidents at Infiniti Sports Bar over the years. A Google Streetview image shows three MPD cruisers and a News Channel 3 vehicle in the club’s parking lot, presumably after a shooting we reported on in 2018.

According to MPD’s records, 911 calls to the bar began to really pick up last year, when officers responded 27 times.  Four of those calls were for armed parties, four calls were for fights and disturbances, and four calls were for shootings, man down or someone wounded.

This year it got worse. There were 25 calls just within the first five months including a burglary, two armed people, four disturbances, a shots fired call, and three more shootings. Some of the incidents involved multiple victims, and in some cases, the victims didn’t survive.

According to MPD’s data, there have been at least eight shootings since 2021, and going through our own archives, we counted at least three more in the years prior.

WREG Investigators asked MPD for the number of calls for service to that location. The number of calls that Memphis Police provided Wednesday (93) was higher than the number provided to us (64).

We are working to find out how they crunched the new number.

Police are still searching for a suspect in the recent mass shooting.