PHILADELPHIA – A strip-club regular paid to meet with a favorite dancer and then shot her and himself in a semi-private room, authorities said.

Lawrence McGuigan, 49, of Philadelphia, died at a hospital Friday following the shooting at the Cheerleaders Gentlemen’s Club. Dancer Harmony Adams, 31, of Croydon, was shot in the back of the neck but is expected to survive, police said.

“He specifically wanted to be at this place with her,” said police Capt. Benjamin Naish. “He had paid money to spend time with her.”

The shooting occurred at about 9 p.m. Thursday, in the club’s Champagne Room. Adams remained in intensive care on Saturday, a spokeswoman at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital said.

Police believe the shootings were intentional. McGuigan had been despondent and threatened suicide recently, authorities said.

Marc S. Raspanti, a lawyer for the South Philadelphia club, called the shooting “an unfortunate event caused by an obviously despondent person.”

The club is cooperating with police, he said.

McGuigan had been arrested twice on drunken driving charges in 2006, and was due in court Friday on the second case. He was convicted of the first offense and was scheduled to serve a three-day jail term in January.

He had been convicted in August of driving with a blood-alcohol level that was three times the legal limit. The sentence included a one-year license suspension, a $1,000 fine and parole.