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Shot Near a Midland Club — Your Negligent Security Claim Starts Here You were walking toward a club on North Lee Street at 1:42 in the morning. You heard arguing — a group of people you did not know, somewhere west of the business. Then gunshots. Then you were on the ground, shot once, and the world changed. You woke up at Midland Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound in your left buttock, and nobody — not the patrons, not the club, not the people who were arguing — would tell the police what happened. The shooter is gone. No crime scene was found. You told the officers you did not want to pursue criminal charges, and maybe you meant it at the time — you were in a hospital bed, in pain, and the criminal justice system felt like someone else’s problem. We need you to hear this clearly: declining to press criminal charges does not close the door on a civil claim for compensation. The criminal system and the civil system are separate. The criminal system punishes the shooter — if the police find them, and if a prosecutor can prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The civil system compensates you — and it asks a different question: did the business that drew you to that block at that hour do what it was legally required to do to keep you safe? That question has nothing to do with whether you pressed charges. And the burden of proof…