A popular Birmingham hookah lounge is closing after a September mass shooting left four people dead and at least 17 injured on the sidewalk outside.

Hush Lounge and the nearby Sleek Sports Bar are set to close soon, the owner said.

Ryan Pryor, the owner of both businesses, confirmed with AL.com that Hush is set to close December 1st but he has not decided on a date for Sleek.

Pryor, a retired police officer who opened Hush in 2019, would not give any details as to why he has decided to close his businesses. Pryor said he will soon make a formal statement on social media.

The EightyEight Bar, another business that Pryor owns in Pickwick Place, the same Five Points South building where Hush and Sleek operate, will remain open.

Hush Lounge, known for their hookah, bottle service, parties, and DJs and celebrated its fifth-year anniversary in June.

Some people took to Facebook to mourn the closing of Hush Lounge.

“It’s forever long live Hush Lounge,” Kay Kyonne said.

“After Dec 1st when Sleek Bar & Hush Lounge closes that will be the end of Black spots on the Southside,” Jamorris Calhoun said.

Not long after the mass shooting, Pryor told AL.com that Hush would not be closing.

“We’re going to continue to open, and prayerfully continue to be one of Birmingham’s safest and most enjoyable nightspots,” he said.

In 2017, he talked to news media about using his law enforcement background to ensure safety and regulations at Sleek Sports Bar during a time when other nightclubs were under scrutiny after incidents of gun violence at their locations.

Killed were Carlos McCain, 27, Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, Anitra Holloman, 21, and Tahj Booker, 27.

Damien Laron McDaniel III, 22, is charged with capital murder in the massacre and with 17 counts of first-degree assault for those who were injured.

McDaniel is also charged with murder in the Sept. 19 killing of Diontranet Tinae Brown, who was shot to death inside 604 Bar and Lounge on Ninth Street North, and in the robbery shooting death of 32-year-old Jamarcus McIntyre, shot to death less than 24 hours after the Five Points South shooting.

Four other people have also been charged with capital murder in McIntyre’s slaying – Ny’Quan Cordae Lollar, 22, Larry Denzel Rollins, Jr., 31, Demarco Nakia Beck Jr., 29, and Zachary Alexander Holmes, 31.