re: Thursday nights in Shreveport

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Posted by Message CoopKnock Thursday nights in Shreveport I've only been to one bar in Shreveport but it's one of my favorite bars anywhere...Maurice's.

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Dude I know got caught with another mans wife there and they are still finding pieces of his skull in the Parking lot. Shotgun blasts are messy.

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downtown is not a good place late night

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You haven't been there in a while.
It is crawling with police on bicycles

Rodeo has lots of easy sluts on Thursday. Wrap it up though. Just sayin

THE CUB!!! HURR!!!1

You're old

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Well, there's your story and then there's the truth.

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guess it's a good thing for crimsonsaint that those are one and the same.

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Shreveport police are seeking the man they believe fatally shot his romantic partner at the Shreve Island house they shared. Meantime, relatives and friends mourn the loss of the woman, one of the figures involved in a beloved downtown bar.

Authorities want Mark Colby, a 57-year-old known as "Chef" to the Noble Savage Tavern crowd, on a charge of second-degree murder. He is thought to have fled the Shreveport area and remained missing Thursday night, some 30 hours after his girlfriend Angela Godley, 53, was discovered lying on the floor with multiple gunshot wounds to her upper body in their house in the 1900 block of Bayou Drive.

A violent offenders task force with the U.S. Marshals Service in Shreveport, along with other agencies, is searching for Colby. A $1,000 reward is being offered to anyone with information leading to his arrest. If booked into jail, he will not have the option of posting bond.

Colby opened Noble Savage Tavern on Texas Street in 1996. An alcoholic beverage permit application filed with the city shows Godley later assumed ownership of the bar, according to Shreveport police Cpl. Breck Scott.

The change in ownership came after Colby allegedly shot a firearm inside Noble Savage Tavern, according to Robert Brocato. The Many, Louisiana, doctor says Colby followed him into the bathroom one night in 2006, put a gun to his head, tilted the barrel and fired a shot past his ear. Brocato said he doesn't know why.

Colby was charged with illegal use of a weapon and ultimately pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault, court records show.

Brocato says some of his friends and supporters of the bar pressured him to drop charges against Colby for fear that the tavern might be forced to close. "The Noble Savage has a reputation in Shreveport. It's got a very strong following by its little crowd," Brocato said, noting that he too had shared "a lot of good times with good friends" at the tavern.

Shreveport native Phillip Jordan Brooks, a filmmaker who's moved to Denver, credits Godley with saving the bar after she took ownership of it. "She made it better and made it more of a community cornerstone. But I'm not taking anything away from Chef either, because his food was phenomenal."

Court records also show that Colby, among other charges, pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals in 2009 and, most recently, in May was booked on third-offense DWI.

Several people who frequent Noble Savage Tavern, where regulars drink out of earthen mugs with custom-engraved sayings or nicknames, declined to speak for this article. Many said they felt too shocked or conflicted about the tragedy that's at least temporarily closed the smoky, much-loved bar where live music plays most nights.

It's unclear whether its employees still have jobs. Shreveport police cars were parked outside the shuttered establishment most of Wednesday and Thursday.

Signs with ornery phrases decorate the joint, such as one in a menu that reads, "We don't sell this S#*T: Coors, Jagermeister, Southern Comfort, wine coolers, frozen drinks, Patron or Heineken. But we do have good liquor."

"What I appreciate about Chef is it was his restaurant, his food, his concept," Brooks said.

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I've been going there for years and everyone knew Chef was nuts, especially after the gun situation a few years ago. You just took that as part of the deal for going to a place you loved and you assumed that there were limits to his anger. Sadly, we were all wrong about that...

Well, I suppose that everything in the past is all water under the bridge and this is all just a huge misunderstanding because Chef is a great guy and the police are going to look pretty stupid interrupting his totally planned and innocent mexican vacation.

I'm not defending the guy but I'll also state the truth about him too.

Well, the old Bossier Strip is a thing of the past, so that's that. Probably one of the casinos.

Then again, for those of simplicity, there are a few farm animals available on the outskirts, or at least so I was told.