A Worthington bar that was the site of a double homicide in November has closed permanently, according to city documents.
Worthington City Council on Monday, June 4, is expected to vote to withdraw an objection to the renewal of liquor permits for Monkey’s Bar & Grille, 6116 Huntley Road, because the bar closed in May, according to city documents.
Council on Dec. 11 voted to object to the renewal less than a month after two men reportedly shot each other outside the bar on Worthington’s east side.
They were Worthington’s first homicides in more than two decades, according to Anne Brown, a Worthington spokeswoman.
In a memo to council dated May 31, law director Tom Lindsey wrote that the bar had closed “on or about” May 7 in a “settlement agreement” with C & B Machinery Inc. and its sole shareholder, Marlen Silva.
C & B Machinery Inc. is the name listed on both city documents and the liquor permit as the owner of Monkey’s. State records show it is registered to Silva, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Silva’s name is on the liquor license, police Chief Jerry Strait said.
“The agreement requires the business to remain closed and the liquor permits to remain in safekeeping until the Ohio Division of Liquor Control approves a transfer of ownership of the liquor permits,” Lindsey’s memo read. “The City retains the right to object to the transfer of ownership and/or location of the liquor permits should the location be within the City of Worthington.”
According to the memo, the council action of withdrawing its objection will “allow the Ohio Division of Liquor Control to officially close the objection hearing.”
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