A responding officer began chest compressions at 10:59 p.m. and were inside the bar less than a minute later. Officers responded immediately after being notified of the incident at 10:56 p.m. The complaint was later ruled “unfounded,” and that officers had acted quickly and professionally. Whiskey Row also filed a complaint with Metro Nashville’s Office of Professional Accountability claiming that the two Metro police officers working on Lower Broadway failed to provide prompt assistance upon notification of the incident, citing that officers waited for the elevator instead of taking the stairs to the roof. Surveillance video, personal cell phone video, and eyewitness accounts were collected from the scene as part of the investigation, but even after the autopsy report, charges were still not filed as police and the District Attorney continued the investigation, with the family of Dallas Barret growing frustrated at the lack of a response. On November 5th, the autopsy report concluded that Dallas Barret’s cause of death was “asphyxiation” and the manner of death was “homicide.” Police preliminary characterized the death as a homicide, but officially called it “unclassified” until an autopsy could be performed. Police were then relieved by Nashville Fire Department personnel who transported Barret to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. They found Barret unresponsive, and began performing CPR. Numerous individuals called 911, with police arriving in just over two minutes. Security then reportedly restrained Barret and held him down until officers arrived. The incident occurred after security guards at Whiskey Row had reportedly told Dallas Barret to leave the premises prior to the altercation, but he refused. Now six employees of the bar, and a non-employee who was also involved in the incident, have all been indicted by a Grand Jury on reckless homicide and aggravated assault charges. After an August 16th altercation on the rooftop bar of Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row property on Lower Broadway in Nashville, 22-year-old Dallas Jordan “DJ” Barret of Smyrna was pronounced dead at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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