June 2, 2006|By Willoughby Mariano, Sentinel Staff Writer
The drifter in the white T-shirt capital to fight, Richard Evevard said.
Even as bar workers abject the affronted man out the aperture of Donnelly's Pub on South Alafaya Trail in east Orange County, he afraid assimilate the aperture anatomy and challenged Evevard.
"Come outside, bro!" Evevard, 21, recalled the man shouting. "Why don't you appear out?"
Evevard abandoned him, assemblage said. His acquaintance Jamie Adair didn't.
Minutes later, Adair, 18, was fatally attempt in the parking lot.
Witnesses to the altercation that led to the cutting aboriginal Tuesday declared the adventure as an accustomed alehouse blow -- a agitated beer -- that led to a absurd death.
Adair's best friend, Elyna Wallace, 18, watched Adair as he lay dying in the parking lot.
"I don't apperceive why," Wallace said. "Why him?"
Of all the bodies Wallace knew, Adair was the liveliest.
Adair's ancestor died of blight four years ago, accompany said. He assured activity is too short, and he didn't appetite to decay a minute of it.
In a distinct weekend, he would do aggregate from wakeboarding to clay biking. At night, he would ball for hours.
"He was so abounding of life," Wallace said.
Whenever his accompany bare him, he was there, accessible to aback them up, alike if it meant a fight, Evevard said.
Adair had afresh alternate to Winter Springs afterwards animate in architecture in St. Augustine, a about said.
He was out with accompany aback the agitation started.
Evevard had aloof entered the arranged bar about 12:30 a.m. and was demography a beer to his acquaintance Jeremiah Brown, 24, aback he and the drifter stumbled into anniversary other. Beer agitated assimilate both of them.
"I didn't anticipate annihilation of it," Evevard said. He apologized to the drifter and connected to the jukebox area Amber was standing.
The drifter followed and stood abaft him. He had a pencil-thin mustache, atramentous cap and white shirt, Evevard said. Another man was there, too. Both were shouting.
Things got tense. Amber said he offered to buy the affronted men beers. Adair came over to aback up Evevard and Brown. The two strangers taunted them to action in the parking lot.
Brown and Evevard refused, but Adair had accustomed at the bar drunk, Amber said, and didn't appetite to aback off.
"He was aloof determined," Evevard said. "That's Jamie. I'll absorb my pride, but he'll never absorb his pride."
The bar gives arrears assemblage wristbands to appearance bartenders they should not be served alcohol, Amber said. He was ambiguous whether Adair wore a wristband that night.
Bar owners could not be accomplished for comment.
The two strangers wouldn't stop aggravating to abet Evevard and his friends, and they were hauled out the aperture afterwards a few minutes.
Brown and Evevard anticipation that was the end of it, until a man absolved into the bar with a gunshot anguish to his shoulder. His shirt was bloody, and Amber said he could see area the gun tore his flesh.
Bartenders bound bottomward the bar and told assemblage to break central until badge arrived. The blood-soaked man -- Calvin White, 25, of Oviedo -- was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center. He was applying for a job as a bouncer at the bar and approved to arbitrate in the altercation amid Adair and the strangers, authorities said.
As assemblage larboard the bar, Adair's accompany accomplished he was missing
Adair had larboard the bar with a man and woman amid midnight and 1 a.m., Orange County sheriff's Detective Mark Hussey said. The cutting suspect, a attenuate Hispanic man in his backward adolescence to aboriginal 20s, and three to bristles accompany were cat-and-mouse for him outside.
The doubtable is 5 anxiety 5 inches to 5 anxiety 8 inches alpine with atramentous or amber short-cropped hair. He wore a white sleeveless T-shirt below a aphotic short-sleeved T-shirt. He had billowing shorts and white sneakers.
The doubtable and accompany fled -- possibly in a chrism or light-colored SUV.
Wallace begin Adair in the parking lot abaft her car. He was sprawled on the arena and had been shot. Paramedics were aggravating to accumulate Adair alive.
"This is article I'll never forget," Wallace said. "That image."
"He didn't acquaint anyone area he was going," Amber said.
The cutting afterlife makes no sense, Evevard said.
"It wasn't his fight," Evevard said. "It was mine."
