A large fight, involving several gunshots fired at Relics bar in West Sedona on Jan. 2, may have all started when “a chick” kissed a 21-year-old victim.

A large fight, involving several gunshots fired at Relics bar in West Sedona on Jan. 2, may have all started when “a chick” kissed a 21-year-old victim.
Sedona police officers responded to a call from the bouncers at Relics shortly after 2 a.m. when the bar closed after hosting Latino Night.
According to a police report, when officer Karl Waak arrived, he witnessed 15 to 20 subjects fighting and heard several gunshots, yet no witnesses saw anyone fire a gun and no one suffered gunshot wounds.
As he pulled in, three trucks filled with people left the scene.
One witness told officers he saw people fighting with fists, bottles, yard tools and rocks and that many people he didn’t know grabbed his gardening tools out of his truck to use as weapons.
Officers collected tools and rocks covered with blood as evidence.
According to Relics’ head of security, he was cleaning inside when he heard the gunshots and ran outside to find “multiple people fighting,” so he called 9-1-1. He then watched as someone threw a tire iron at a male subject, hitting him in the head and observed several vehicles with smashed windows.
He did not shoot warning shots in the air, he told officers, and he did not see the other bouncer shoot a gun either.
A 21-year-old male, badly beaten, was treated by Sedona Fire District paramedics and transported to the Verde Valley Medical Center in Cottonwood for a cut on the back of his head that required three staples to close.
His face had swelling, his front teeth were broken out and his left hand was broken in the rumble.
The victim told officers it was the first time he’d gone to Relics. When he walked out of the bar at closing, a male hit him with a bat “because a chick kissed him,” according to a police report.
He told officers he didn’t want to make a complaint or be involved.
When officers stopped a truck that was seen leaving Relics after the fight, the driver told them the fight started after a group of aggressive males started harassing a group of females.
A second group of males told the aggressors to stop and the fight ensued, the witness said.
The group of aggressive males hit his pickup with shovels and rakes, he said, shattering the rear window and scratching all parts of his car, with damages totaling $1,000, he estimated.
SPD sent the case to the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control.