Halloween Shooting Case Still Cold One Year Later

Its been almost a year since Carolo Petrusa, 64, of Riverside was shot and killed at a costume party at in Hampton Bays and Suffolk police say the case remains unsolved.

Suffolk County Homicide has taken over the case, according to the county police public information office. However, they have no leads at this time.

On Oct. 29, 2010 Petrusa was shot when a costume contest escalated into a  fight between one costume party contestant, dressed as a cave woman, and another patron. According to police, the fight started inside the club and then moved to the parking lot when a man dressed in a costume from the 1995 movie "Dead Presidents" ran to a car and grabbed a gun.

The shooter, police said, ran back into the club firing the weapon, with bullets hitting Petrusa and 35-year-old Shawn Badgett of Middle Island, who was the event promoter. 

Badgett was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment and was released a short while later. Petrusio was brought to Brookhaven Medical Center, where he died of injuries. 

Since the shooting Dream Night Club has been the subject of much police activity. Over the summer police busted bartenders for serving alcohol to minors and investigated several fights and drug deals.

Frank Vlahadamis, the club's owner, blames police retaliation. In August, he said that police are retaliating against a federal lawsuit he filed over three years ago, claiming that the town targeted him because he catered to the Hispanic community at the , which he also owns.

Police have stated that enforcement activity is not retaliation and that they have tried to work with the owner.

The club has also been closed for the past few weeks undergoing a renovation, according the Dream's Facebook page. It is set to hold grand reopening festivities this weekend with a Latin Halloween bash on Friday night and a costume party on Saturday, the anniversary of the shooting.