Three men were killed and eight people wounded in a mass shooting in a Brooklyn lounge early Sunday, cops said.
More than one shooter opened fire in the Taste of the City Lounge on Franklin Ave. near Carroll St. in Crown Heights just before 3:30 a.m., cops said.
“We have multiple shooters involved in this shooting and we have recovered 36 shell casings,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press briefing outside the lounge. “It’s a terrible shooting that’s occurred.”
The dead include two men, ages 35 and 27, and a third whose age is not yet known.
“We have the lowest number of shooting incidents and shooting victims seven months into the year that we’ve seen on record in the city of New York,” Tisch said.
“Something like this is, of course, thank God, an anomaly. And it’s a terrible thing that happened this morning but we’re going to investigate and get to the bottom of what went down.”
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