Woman suspected of driving car into crowd after Raleigh nightclub fight

Katia Vasquez said she was waiting for friends outside Tekilas after the club in the Ashton Square shopping center on Capital Boulevard closed at about 2 a.m. Sunday when she got into an argument with another woman.

"I don’t know why she [was] mad with me. I don’t know," Vasquez, 19, said Tuesday. "[It was] really, really scary because I was by myself and there was like three guys and this girl."

Vasquez and the woman got into a physical altercation, and Vasquez said a man then hit her on the head. She said she headed for her car, and a man began shooting at her.

"I know these people are crazy. They starting cracking my car and everything," she said. "I was scared because they shot [at] me like six times, but only one got on my car."

Vasquez is listed as the victim of an aggravated assault on a police report, but a spokeswoman for the Raleigh Police Department said she also is a suspect in the incident.

Security cameras outside Tekilas recorded the fight and a car later driving into a crowd of people. Police believe Vasquez was driving that car, the spokeswoman said.

"The video shows the car backing up with four or five people there fighting," Tekilas owner Beal Bartholomew said.

The crowd scattered as the car approached, and no one was injured, police said.

Vasquez admitted to being in the car but said she was just trying to go home to get away from the situation.

Bartholomew said his club hasn't had many problems since he opened it three years ago.

"[I've] never had to call the police department out here, except on one occasion," he said.

No arrests have been made in the incident, but police said it remains under investigation.