Adam "Pacman" Jones Tennessee Titans cornerback Minxx strip club, shown Monday, was the scene of a fight involving NFL player Adam "Pacman" Jones last month. Las Vegas police on Monday recommended Jones face misdemeanor and felony charges. Three people were shot near the entrance of the club. Photo by Ralph Fountain. Las Vegas police investigate a triple shooting Feb. 19 at the entrance to the Minxx topless club at 4636 Wynn Road, near Tropicana Avenue. Photo by Gary Thompson. Tom Urbanski Minxx bouncer paralyzed from waist down in shooting

Las Vegas police are recommending that NFL player Adam "Pacman" Jones be charged with one felony and two misdemeanors in connection with a February melee at a topless club that ended in a shooting.

Jones, a Tennessee Titans cornerback, and members of his entourage had been ejected from the Minxx strip club just minutes before multiple shots were fired in the parking lot, wounding three, including a bouncer paralyzed from the waist down.

The shooting just before dawn on Feb. 19 was cited by authorities as the worst violence associated with Las Vegas' hosting of the National Basketball Association All-Star Game.

Police said Monday that detectives haven't determined who fired the shots. While they continue to investigate that aspect of the case, they are recommending to the district attorney that Jones and two others be charged in relation to the fight that preceded the gunfire.

"This is just the beginning. These are small steps we are taking," Las Vegas police Lt. George Castro said.

Police are recommending Jones face misdemeanor battery, misdemeanor threats to life and felony coercion charges, Castro said.

The fight broke out after Cornelius Haynes Jr., better known as the rapper Nelly, tossed hundreds of dollars of Jones' money onto the stage for visual effect, police said. When strippers began taking the money, Jones "became irate" and got into a fight with the bouncers, police said.

Castro said the felony coercion charge is for punching one of the bouncers, which prevented that bouncer from "protecting citizens, employees and the property."

"He (Jones) was there committing the misdemeanor battery as well as the threats to life and coercion which we have witnesses of," Castro said.

Castro characterized Jones as an instigator of the scuffle inside the club that led to the shooting outside. "Was he an inciter? Yes, he was," Castro said.

Police are also recommending that two friends of Jones, 37-year-old Robert Reid and 24-year-old Sadia Morrison, face similar charges in connection with the fight. Reid, a resident of Carson, Calif., should be charged with misdemeanor battery and one felony count of coercion, and Morrison, a New York resident, should be charged with one felony count of coercion in addition to the felony battery with a deadly weapon charge she was already facing, police said. Police booked Morrison into the Clark County jail on the day of the shooting for the felony battery charge.

District Attorney David Roger said Monday afternoon that his office hadn't yet received the case from police and therefore couldn't comment on whether the charges that police are recommending will be filed against Jones and the others. "It's premature to pass judgment on the merits of the case," he said.

Jones' lawyer, Worrick Robinson, declined to comment on the police recommendations Monday afternoon. "We're still gathering our own information from the (police) press conference," Robinson said by telephone from Nashville, Tenn.

Reid couldn't be reached for comment.

Morrison's attorney, Robert Langford, questioned how Morrison could have posed a threat to a bouncer inside the club. Police previously said that Morrison hit Minxx security guard Adam Cudworth over the head with a champagne bottle.

"Was she beating up on a bouncer? How many women can go toe to toe with a bouncer in this town?" he said.

Morrison, who lives in New York, is becoming the victim of all the negative publicity surrounding the case, her lawyer said.

"It sounds to me like it's a situation that got out of hand," Langford said. "My client is probably going to be sucked into the vortex of the high profile nature of the case. And that's pretty sad."

The saddest aspect of the incident, however, is the condition in which 43-year-old Minxx security guard Tom Urbanski was left, his friends and relatives say. Urbanski is a paraplegic as a result of the multiple gunshot wounds he suffered, and he has had to endure a series of medical complications, including infections in a lung. He was a patient at University Medical Center for 30 days before being transferred last week to a rehabilitation hospital in Englewood, Colo. to undergo more treatment.

His wife, Kathy Urbanski, who had complained earlier this month that authorities had yet to charge anyone in the case, said Monday that she was "very happy to hear" about the police recommendations.

"We're absolutely thrilled," she said.

Matthew Dushoff, an attorney representing the Urbanskis, said the family felt vindicated that the police were recommending that charges be filed in connection with the fight but they still want the person responsible for shooting Urbanski to be arrested.

Lawyers for Jones have denied Minxx club co-owner Robert Susnar's account that Jones arrived and left the club with the shooter. After 500 hours of reviewing videotapes and interviewing witnesses from the club, Castro said police were unable to establish a relationship between Jones and the gunman.

Susnar has said the shooting happened after Jones threatened to kill a bouncer who intervened when Jones allegedly attacked a dancer who grabbed money on the stage.

Police later reported confiscating $81,000 in cash belonging to Jones. The money was recovered from the hotel room of Houston-based promoter Chris Mitchell, whose "Harlem Knights" dancers were brought in for the weekend at Minxx, a club several blocks west of the Strip on Wynn Road, near Tropicana Avenue.

Mitchell allegedly told the dancers to pick up the money that Haynes had thrown onto the stage. When the fight broke out at the club, Mitchell took a bag of cash that belonged to Jones, according to a police report. He later told police he thought the money was for the dancers.

One of Jones' lawyers, Manny Arora of Atlanta, told ESPN News that Jones was most concerned about the reaction of the league to charges that have not yet been filed.

"He's reacting like anybody would. He's obviously very upset about it," Arora said. "He's got enough issues with the NFL threatening to take disciplinary action. Then, you throw this on top of it."

He said he was most concerned that a new player conduct policy currently being discussed by NFL owners would retroactively punish Jones.

"Our biggest concern is what the NFL is going to do, then we'll deal with an arrest if there is one in the future," Arora said.

The NFL confirmed last month that officials were reviewing Jones' off-field conduct, which has included 10 incidents where he was interviewed by police.

Jones was not welcome to take part in the offseason conditioning program of the Tennessee Titans, which began last week.

The Titans are trying to decide whether to keep Jones, the sixth pick overall in 2005. The cornerback did not tell team officials about being arrested twice in Georgia in 2006, a potential violation of the personal conduct policy.

In January, a Tennessee judge ordered Jones to stay out of trouble until July 5, 2007, to have public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges from an August 2006 arrest in the Nashville suburb of Murfreesboro, Tenn., expunged.

Jones also has charges pending from a February 2006 Georgia case, in which he's accused of biting a Fayetteville police officer between his thumb and index finger. Jones was charged with felony obstruction of police. On March 13, a Georgia judge delayed a court appearance in that case to give Jones' attorneys time to determine how the NFL might react to a potential plea agreement.

In a statement released Monday, Titans officials said they were "deeply disturbed that the alleged conduct of one of its players has resulted in felony charges in one state and accusations of felony charges in another state."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.