EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Hookah Lounge Owner responds to blame for Midtown shooting

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EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Hookah Lounge Owner responds to blame for Midtown shooting
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'I could almost guarantee if the hookah lounge wasn't there, this wouldn't be happening,' said Rafael Gil, owner of Puff and Stuff Smoke Shop in response to the shooting over the weekend on Speedway and Swan.

, he shared what happened just before 3 a.m. early Sunday.“They told me to duck because there were shots being fired across the street,” he said. When reports of the incident came through on the Tucson Police Scanner early Sunday, an officer said, 'We've got a massive gun battle over here at the hookah lounge.”Baker said the scene early Sunday night did not start at his hookah lounge, adding none of the people involved were his customers.

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