3 dead, 8 injured in Brooklyn nightclub shooting
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A mass shooting overnight at a club in Brooklyn left three people dead and another nine wounded, police officials and the mayor said Sunday morning.
Multiple individuals were transported to local hospitals. However, their conditions were not immediately released.
Jamel Andre Childs, 35, tried to cool tempers down at Taste of the City lounge in Crown Heights before the gunfight erupted, friends say.
Around four shooters opened fire at a New York City restaurant early Sunday, resulting in three deaths and eight injuries. According to police, the violence is gang-related.
The three men killed were Prospect Lefferts Garden resident Marvin St. Louis, 19, Harlem resident Amadou Diallo, 27, and Flatlands resident Jamel Childs, 35, according to police. Officials did not immediately say if they suspected any of the people who were shot had opened fire at the venue.
The Brooklyn hookah lounge where three people were killed and nine others wounded early Sunday was right at the scene of another shooting less than a year ago.
New York City was shaken by a mass shooting in which 11 people were hit, of whom three have died, at a restaurant-cum-lounge