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Condor Club employees arrested on suspicion of murdering topless bar owner

Marc Calcagni’s body was discovered this month in the middle of a bike lane.

A lit "CONDOR" sign hangs on a building with two women standing below, and a city skyline including a pointed skyscraper is visible in the background.
The Condor is the oldest topless bar in San Francisco.

Three weeks after Mark Calcagni, the 60-year-old owner of the Condor Club, a topless bar in North Beach, was fatally shot in the early morning hours at his Santa Rosa home, two of his former employees have been arrested for allegedly carrying out the attack.

The Santa Rosa Police Department said Saturday that Richard Lund, 43, and Asia Morton, 25, who live together and are involved romantically, planned the attack before Lund allegedly pulled the trigger Oct. 3.

Using information from witnesses, digital footprints, and surveillance footage, detectives came to “believe Lund fatally shot Calcagni after waiting for him to return home from work in the early morning hours,” police said.

On Friday, Violent Crime Investigations detectives took Lund into custody at the couple’s apartment complex in Dublin before searching the premises for more evidence.

“A short time later,” the police said, Morton “was apprehended at San Francisco International Airport after arriving on a plane from international travel.”

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The department encourages any member of the public with information on the case to contact the Santa Rosa Police at (707) 543-3590.

Representatives of the Condor Club did not respond to a request for comment.

Ezra Wallach can be reached at [email protected]