Man who 'claimed to be a UFC fighter from California before shooting eight people when he was refused entry to a Texas bar' is arrested in Florida

• A gunman shot and wounded eight people outside a San Antonio, Texas, bar 
• Federal agents arrested Jenelius Crew, 37, Thursday as he left a hotel in Miami  
• The shooter allegedly tried to get into the bar saying 'don't you know who I am?'
• He claimed to be a UFC fighter from California but there is no evidence of this

An arrest has been made a week after a gunman fired shots from his rifle that left eight revelers wounded outside a Texas bar.

Federal agents handcuffed Jenelius Crew, 37, Thursday morning as he left a hotel in Miami, Florida.

Crew is accused of being in a group that was denied entry to Texas' Rebar on San Antonio's north side at around midnight last Friday.

He reportedly shouted 'don't you know who I am? I'm a UFC fighter from California' before getting a rifle out of his car and shooting people nearby.

Detectives were granted warrants for his arrest on Wednesday for eight counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.  

It has since been revealed Crew has no affiliation to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. His name is not in Tapology's fighter database.

Federal agents arrested Jenelius Crew, 37, Thursday morning as he left a hotel in Miami

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus previously said the gunman's group was 'inebriated' and had been denied entry to the bar. 

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San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told an early morning news briefing that a group of people were denied entry to the bar around midnight because they were drunk

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Scores of police cars were spotted at the scene in a video posted to Facebook shortly after the shooting last Friday

The gunman fled the scene.

Police previously said that the victims included five women and three men, between the ages of 23 to 41. 

All were listed in stable conditions at local hospitals, police said. None have been identified.

There have been numerous mass shootings in the United States recently, including a shooting outside a Walmart at the border town El Paso in August 2019, that left 22 people dead.

Last week Texas reported a record-breaking number of new coronavirus cases in a single day after the state entered Phase III of its reopening plan.  

The Department of State Health Services reported 2,504 new cases on Tuesday, June 9, surpassing the previous single-day record of 1,949 on May 31. 

The state has now had 99,851 confirmed cases and 2,105 deaths have been recorded. 

Texas also reported three straight days of record hospitalizations, with 1,935 on Monday, June 8, 2,056 on Tuesday, June 9, and 2,153 on Wednesday, June 10. 

Meanwhile in Arizona, hospitals that are expected to be able to treat new cases of coronavirus without going into crisis mode are at 83 percent capacity, according to a report released by the Department of Health Services.

The report came as the state dealt with a surge in virus cases and hospitalizations, with 31,264 and 3,531 respectively. 

Experts say the spikes in Texas, Arizona and many other states are likely due to the premature lifting of lockdown measures in mid-May.  

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Police said that the victims included five women and three men, between the ages of 23 to 41. The scene of the shooting is pictured above

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Texas bars were reopen on May 22 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Rebar advertised their Friday night festivities on Facebook just hours before the shooting 

Texas, the second largest state in the United States, was the first state to pull back lockdown restrictions despite concerns from public health experts over a second wave of cases. Its bars were reopened on May 22.

Governor Greg Abbott cited several reasons behind his rushed reopening, including the state's small number of laboratory confirmed cases.

PHASE III OF TEXAS REOPENING 

On June 3, Governor Greg Abbott pushed Texas into Phase III of reopening plans that nearly all businesses to restart operations.

Restaurants were already allowed to open at 50 percent capacity, but the latest phase increased table seating from six to 10 people at a time. On June 12, restaurants can expand capacity to 75 percent.

Professional outdoor sports teams can now allow 50 percent capacity inside stadiums and college teams can resume operations for the first time at 50 percent capacity. 

Additionally, water parks opened with some restrictions and driver education programs could resume immediately. 

Meanwhile, public health experts and state officials are both concerned about a rise in coronavirus cases as protests over the death of George Floyd spark in Texas. 

'The people of Texas continue to prove that we can safely and responsibly open our state for business while containing COVID-19 and keeping our state safe,' said Abbot in a statement'

The county had five or fewer COVID-19 laboratory confirmed cases on April 30, 2020 or, at a later date, five or fewer active COVID-19 cases as verified by DSHS,' he wrote in a press statement.

However, there were glaring gaps in other forms of data. 

For example, the state did not begin widespread testing within its massive prison system until May 12. 

With over 157,00 people behind bars, Texas has the largest prison population of any state in the US, and the fifth highest incarceration rate in the nation.  

When results of that testing push rolled in, on May 26, the number of confirmed prisoner infections jumped from about 2,500 to 6,900 over a two week period. 

Prisoner infections combined with outbreaks at meat packing plants in 10 Texas counties accounted for most of the 35 percent jump in cases from May 27 to June 7, according to The Tribune. 

But spreading at these seemingly contained locations is not in fact isolated to them, as packing plant workers and prison guards and staff return to their families and communities from enclosed environments where the virus can spread easily. 

Guidelines for reopening states have relied on the number of tests processed, but some infectious disease experts have argued that performance should be based on hospitalization numbers.

'Looking at things like how many ICU admissions and deaths are probably some of the strongest and most reliable (data points) because they are the worst outcomes that could happen,'  Dr. David Hardy, an adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told CNBC. 

In addition to Texas and Arizona, the New York Times has reported that around 20 states saw a rise in cases over the last few weeks.