VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Michael Vick
was interviewed by a detective Monday about a shooting that took place
outside a nightclub where he had celebrated his birthday, a Virginia
Beach Police spokesman said.
The spokesman, Adam Bernstein, said
the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback is not a suspect, and no arrest has
been made in Friday's early morning shooting. One man was wounded.
Vick was accompanied on the police
interview by his lawyer, Larry Woodward.
"He said he wasn't involved, he was
gone before the shooting took place, and he doesn't know who did the
shooting," Woodward said in a telephone interview.
Police have not identified the
shooting victim, but several news outlets identified him as Quanis
Phillips, one of the co-defendants in the dogfighting case that landed
Vick in federal prison for 18 months. A hospital spokesman confirmed
that Phillips was admitted to the hospital Friday morning and discharged
that afternoon but refused to disclose his injuries, citing privacy
laws.
Woodward said Vick did not invite
Phillips to the party and had no contact with him there. Vick remains on
three years' probation and is not allowed to associate with anyone
convicted of a felony unless granted permission to do so by his
probation officer.
An NFL spokesman said Monday the
league is looking into the shooting and had no further comment. NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell reinstated Vick after being suspended for two
years last July, and said at the time that Vick's margin for error
would be "extremely limited."
Woodward said Vick left the club
Guadalajara at Town Center shopping center at least 10 minutes and
perhaps as much as 20 minutes before the shooting, which occurred just
after 2 a.m. The shooting victim and witnesses at first were
uncooperative, according to police, but Bernstein said detectives have
now interviewed several people.
Police have said witnesses described
the shooter as a black man wearing a white tank top and driving a white
Cadillac Escalade.
The Thursday night party was hyped on
social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter as "Michael Vick's
ALL WHITE 30th Birthday Bash." Tickets cost $50.
Vick, who is from nearby Newport
News, was in the area conducting a football camp at Hampton University.