2 gunmen in Brooklyn mass shooting were killed, NYPD says
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Multiple individuals were transported to local hospitals. However, their conditions were not immediately released.
Law enforcement officials say a shooter or shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City Lounge in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.
"They’re obviously looking to see if they’re part of that same robbery pattern involving the CBP agent shot,'' a law-enforcement source said.
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.
The three victims were identified by police as 35-year-old Jamel Childs, 27-year-old Amadou Diallo and 19-year-old Marvin St. Louis. WABC-TV's Crystal Cranmore reports.
Chilling new video captures the moment dozens of panicked patrons run for their lives as deadly gunfire breaks out at a packed Brooklyn hookah lounge early Sunday.
The New York City mayor's race candidates honed in on fighting crime and prostitution after the mass shooting took quality of life issues front and center.