What to Know
- A shooting broke out at a crowded Brooklyn nightclub around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning; three people were killed and another nine were injured and taken to hospitals in the borough.
- Victims range in age from 19 to 61. The youngest, a 19-year-old male, as well as two men ages 27 and 35, all succumbed to their injuries.
- NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said investigators believed up to four people fired guns during the nightclub shootout. Forty-two shell casings were recovered at the scene and a gun was recovered nearby, but officials couldn’t say yet whether it was linked to the incident.
- The shooting appears to be gang-related and “some of the victims were involved in the shooting incident,” the commissioner said.
- Police officials stress that New York City has seen a record low year for gun violence and roughly 60% of all shootings across the city are tied to gangs.
A mass shooting overnight at a crowded club in Brooklyn left three people dead and another nine wounded, police officials and the mayor said Sunday morning.
Multiple suspects opened fire around 3:30 a.m. at Taste of the City Lounge, located off Franklin Avenue in the Crown Heights neighborhood, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed early Sunday morning.
Victims ranged in age from 19 to 61, the commissioner said. The youngest, a 19-year-old male, died at the scene. Two other men, ages 27 and 35, were pronounced dead at nearby hospitals in Brooklyn.
Initially, the commissioner reported a total of 11 people were shot during the overnight violence. At a press conference shortly before 12 p.m., between top NYPD brass and the mayor, Eric Adams confirmed a twelfth person had been hit.
Adams said crisis management teams had been mobilized to provide trauma services and facilitate mediation efforts with the victims’ friends and families to try to stop any retaliation. He asked members of the public who might have information about the shooting to help investigators by calling NYPD’s crime stoppers line, 800-577-TIPS.
“We need your help. If you were inside the club, if you heard individuals talking about of this shooting, if you witness someone fleeing the location, every piece of information will allow us to put the puzzle together to solve this crime,” Mayor Adams said.
The shooting began after a dispute at the crowded club, the commissioner said. She said officers recovered at least 42 shell casings from the lounge on Sunday morning, as well as a firearm that was discovered in a nearby street. So far, police investigators have not been able to directly link that gun to the nightclub shooting.
“What we know preliminarily is that there was a dispute inside the crowded club that led to the shooting. We believe that there were up to four shooters involved in this incident,” Tisch said.
No one was in custody as of the 12 p.m. press conference, but the commissioner said the shooting appeared to be gang-related. Sixty-percent of shootings across the city, she added, are linked back to gangs.
Taste of the City Lounge said in an Instagram Story that it was “devastated” by the shooting and was keeping the injured and the families of the deceased in its prayers.
Tisch also said some of the victims of the overnight violence were involved in the shooting.
“The safety and well-being of our guests and community has always been our top priority,” the lounge said. “We are working closely with law enforcement and will continue to fully cooperate as the investigation moves forward.”
Tisch said the violence erupted even as the city has reported the lowest number of shootings and shooting victims on record during the first seven months of 2025.
“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,” she said.
The crime is the second mass shooting within weeks in New York City during a year that has otherwise seen declining gun violence. On July 29, a man stalked through a Manhattan office tower with a rifle, wounding one person and killing four others. A New York City police officer was among those who died.
Mayor Eric Adams said both recent shootings just reinforce “why we do this work of going after guns off our streets.”
“This is the second within weeks, and we don’t want this to turn into a normal course of doing business of violence in our city,” he said.
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