http://www.dailypress.com/sports/michaelvick/dp-nws-vick-party-shooting-20100625,0,7967967.story
They say you can dress some folks up, but you can't take their behinds anywhere.
Apparently, that was the case again last night at a lavish birthday party for Michael Vick at the Guadalajara night club in Virginia Beach Town Center.
Vick turns 30 on Saturday, and some folks were hoping to celebrate it all weekend at various locations.
So guess who shows up at some point during the party, several sources tell me -- Quanis Phillips, a Vick co-defendant in the 2007 dog-fighting case.
Now, Vick is not supposed to be associating with any of the co-defendants in the case -- and I know buddy-turned-informant Tony Taylor did NOT get an invite. Nor did I.
Anyway, from here, things get vague, because some folks who were at the party don't want it published that they were there. Some folks who might have been witnesses to some of the incident don't want it to be known if they were witnesses.
But the story goes that Quanis threatened to smash birthday cake in Vick's face, or that he actually smashed the cake in Vick's face.
Another version is that someone smashed cake in Quanis' face -- or threatened to smash it in his face.
Anyway, the confrontation moved outside -- where I'm told there were several still cameras and video cameras.
Cooler heads did NOT prevail, and 'Q' was shot in the shopping center parking lot.
It is unclear whether Vick was still around at the time of the shooting, but he was definitely not there when police arrived.
'Q' Phillips was in good condition at a Virginia Beach hospital on Friday morning.