3 Found Dead in Shooting at Nightclub

A young couple was shot to death in the parking lot of a popular Mission Valley nightclub early Monday morning. Found near their bodies was the body of the woman’s former boyfriend, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

San Diego police homicide Lt. Paul Ybarrondo said that John Gregory Parish, 22, of Clairemont apparently confronted his former girlfriend, Allison K. Browne, 24, of La Mesa and her companion, Kevin Howard Harris, 23, of San Diego, in the parking lot of the Confetti nightclub.

Police believe Parish shot both Browne and Harris twice in the head as they tried to leave in Browne’s car, then shot himself in the head with a .12-gauge shotgun.

Parish, a laborer at Raney Presser Co., and Browne, a San Diego State University student, had recently stopped dating, Ybarrondo said.

Ybarrondo said he did not know if Browne and Harris, a mechanic for Target stores, were dating or were just friends. At any rate, Ybarrondo said, Parish apparently was jealous.

The three bodies were found at 12:35 a.m. Monday when a patron of the nightclub went outside to investigate what sounded like five gunshots, Ybarrondo said.

Browne’s body was found in the driver’s seat of her idling sports car, Ybarrondo said. Harris’ body was in a kneeling position just outside the opened driver’s door. Parish’s body was slumped against a rear wheel of the car, with a single-shot, .12-gauge shotgun lying at his feet, Ybarrondo said.

Police said they found a lot of ammunition in the pocket of a hunting vest Parish was wearing.

Nightclub patrons told police Browne and Parish had been seen inside the nightclub, but they were not seen with one another. Other club patrons interviewed by police also said they had not seen Browne or Parish talking or arguing with one another, Ybarrondo said.

Ybarrondo said he was not able to confirm whether Harris had been inside the nightclub that night.

At Confetti’s Monday afternoon, the woman who answered the phone said the nightclub would be open that evening as usual. She declined to give her name and refused all comment on the shootings.

Mike daly, manager of Confetti, said the nightclub does not plan to change any of its policies in the wake of the shootings.

“How can you have control over a thing like this?” he said. “We’re really sorry about it, but we know in our hearts and minds that we had no control over it.”

The nightclub, with a capacity of 633 people, has about 10,000 customers per week, Daly said.