The owner of the Prest Street house is now charged in the Detroit after-hours shooting case.

Charging the owner of the house is a different theory from charging the shooter. Prosecutors accuse Scott of running the place as a blind pig: a criminal enterprise, a house of ill fame, a drug house, and a place furnished for alcohol consumption for consideration. They do not accuse him of firing a gun. His lawyers say he does not live there and was fixing the house up. Both men's charges are accusations.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office has now charged the owner of the house. CBS Detroit reported that the homeowner faces one count each of conducting a criminal enterprise, keeping a house of ill fame, maintaining a drug house, and furnishing a place for alcohol consumption for consideration, and that prosecutors are seeking forfeiture of the residence in the 14800 block of Prest Street. FOX 2 Detroit identified him as Javon Scott, a partial owner of the property, and reported that he was taken into custody Oct. 9, appeared Saturday before a 36th District Court magistrate, and was given a $75,000 bond, 10%, with his next court date Oct. 12. FOX 2 reported that his lawyers say Scott does not live at the home, that it is listed as vacant and has drawn blight violations over the years, and that Scott, a licensed plumber, has been working to make it fit for occupancy. Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison said police had seven calls for service to the home since the beginning of the year, CBS Detroit reported, and an official said none were related to gun violence. FOX 2 reported police visited the home 10 times over the past year. The reporting used here does not describe any relationship between Javon Scott and Kevin Scott, one of the men killed.

The shooting was in the early hours of Sept. 27 at an illicit after-hours strip club on Detroit's west side, in the 14800 block of Prest Street. The Detroit Free Press reported that Worthy said a fight between two women, over an allegedly missing cell phone, started inside and continued outside, where it escalated. Worthy said the women "couldn't control their emotions because allegedly a cell phone went missing." The Free Press reported that Gouch "entered the melee," produced a handgun, and that seven people were shot, three of them killed. WXYZ reported the shooting just after 7:20 a.m. Sunday at a house on Prest near Eaton that police described as an unlicensed after-hours strip club. A prosecutor's account at a news conference is an allegation.

WXYZ identified the people killed as Ansley Harris Jr., 45, and Donahvan Gray, 36, both of Detroit, and Kevin Scott, 63, of Belleville. Worthy described those killed as a security guard, a DJ, and a partygoer. The reporting used here did not assign those roles to individual names. Four other people were wounded. The Free Press said it was unclear whether Gouch knew the victims or why he inserted himself into the fight. That uncertainty is part of the charging account. It is not a motive finding.

The Detroit Free Press used Christopher Raphael Gouch as the name on the charges. WXYZ used Christopher Rafael Gouch. This account uses Raphael, the Free Press charging name, and notes the Rafael spelling. The counts Worthy announced are three counts of first-degree murder, four counts of assault with intent to murder, and seven felony-firearm counts. The Free Press reported those firearm counts as felony firearms. WXYZ reported them as felony firearm. The Free Press said Gouch was expected to be arraigned at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2. CBS Detroit reported he was arrested Sept. 29. A news conference does not decide the case, and neither does a forfeiture filing against the house. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.