Jones, 23, a cornerback for the Tennessee Titans, would face a felony charge of coercion and misdemeanor threat and battery charges stemming from the 5 a.m. shooting at the club, called Minxx, police Lt. George Castro said.

Castro said detectives have not been able to determine who fired the shots that wounded three people, one critically, outside the club on the weekend of the NBA All-Star game.

Instead, Clark County District Attorney David Roger will be asked sometime this week to consider charges stemming from the incident against Jones and Robert Reid, 37, and Sadia Morrison, 24, who Castro described as friends of Jones.

No arrest warrant has been issued and an investigation will continue into whether another person might have been involved and fired the shots.

Castro characterized Jones as an instigator of a scuffle inside the club that led to the shooting outside.

"Was he an inciter? Yes, he was," Castro said.

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 shooter.

Lawyers for Jones have denied Minxx club co-owner Robert Susnar's account that the Tennessee Titans cornerback arrived and left the club with the shooter, who witnesses said opened fire about 5 a.m. Feb. 19 outside the club.

Two club security guards and an unidentified woman were wounded, including one guard who was paralyzed from the waist down. He was transferred last week from University Medical Center to a rehabilitation hospital. The other guard and the woman were not seriously wounded.

Jones was questioned by Las Vegas police and released.

His lawyer, Worrick Robinson of Nashville, Tenn., had no comment Monday before the police news conference. Another Jones lawyer, Manny Arora in Atlanta, was out of the office Monday and did not immediately respond to a message from The Associated Press.

The pre-dawn shooting came after a weekend that included the NBA All-Star game. It followed a scuffle that broke out in the club when dancers on stage were showered with thousands of dollar bills, according to a police search warrant.

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

Police later reported confiscating $81,000 in cash belonging to Jones from a safe in 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 Las Vegas Strip.

Officials say Jones has been questioned by police in 10 separate incidents since being drafted by the Titans in April 2005, and reports that Jones was in the club raised concern that a judge would impose sanctions based on an order to stay out of trouble until July 5. That instruction came in a case of public intoxication and disorderly conduct for an August arrest in the Nashville suburb of Murfreesboro, Tenn.