Two men were arrested outside Reggie’s bar in Tigerland Monday night when one of them pointed a loaded gun at bar patrons and staff members and threatened to fire, according to Baton Rouge Police arrest reports.
BRPD found a loaded 9 mm Taurus pistol on Christopher Hicks, 21, who was identified by witnesses as the gunman and subsequently arrested, according to his arrest report. Hicks was intoxicated at the time of his arrest.
He was charged with aggression with a firearm, illegal possession of a weapon, handling a weapon while drunk, disturbing the peace by fighting and public intoxication, according to the report.
According to Louisiana law, public intoxication is prosecuted as disturbing the peace.
Christopher Summers, 21, was also arrested at Reggie’s Monday night and charged with resisting an officer and two counts of disturbing the peace, according to his arrest report.
Neither of the men are LSU students, and both were booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
Summers was involved in an escalating parking lot fist fight when Hicks pulled the gun, according to Summers’s arrest report. BRPD spokesperson Cpl. Don Coppola said the specifics of the fight are not clear at this time.
Christopher Zachary, who is also not a student, was involved in the incident and issued a summons, but Coppola could not confirm yet on what grounds.
Hicks and Summers were best friends, according to Kaleigh Cavalier, Hicks’s former girlfriend.
Though she hasn’t seen Hicks in about a month, she said his behavior was out of character.
Cavalier, who is also not an LSU student, said it was unusual for Hicks to be in Tigerland at all.
“He never goes to Tigerland — or at least when I dated him, he never went,” Cavalier said. “I would go to Tigerland and he wouldn’t even go. I wish I knew. That’s crazy.”

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Courtesy of East Baton Rouge Parish Prison

Christopher Summers, 21