DENVER—A strip club employee has been arrested on suspicion of reckless manslaughter in the death of a California Indian leader, police said Friday.
Authorities said Bryan Coe surrendered Thursday in connection with the Sept. 1 death of 41-year-old Gabriel Pico of Temecula, Calif., outside the Diamond Cabaret & Steakhouse.
Authorities have said Pico was injured in an altercation with a bouncer at the club. Police spokesman Sonny Jackson declined to say whether Coe was a bouncer or had scuffled with Pico.
The coroner says Pico died of asphyxia.
Jail officials said they had no record of an attorney for the 39-year-old Coe and declined to take a message for him.
Police arrested two other men on charges of second-degree assault in connection with the altercation at the club. Investigators said both worked at the club, although the lawyer for one of the men denied that.
Pico was a member of the Tribal Council of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians. Tribal officials say he was in Denver for events surrounding the Democratic convention but wasn’t a delegate.
