A mass shooting at a Crown Heights hookah lounge early Sunday left three people dead and eight others wounded, according to the NYPD.
Police said several gunmen fired off rounds at the Taste of the City Lounge at Franklin Avenue and Carroll Street around 3:30 a.m. Officers recovered more than 30 shell casings from the scene. The shooters have not yet been identified.
The people killed in the shooting were all men, including a 27 and 35 year old. Police have not yet provided the age of the third man who was killed. The eight other people who were wounded were taken to local hospitals. The NYPD had no updates on their statuses Sunday morning.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the people shot ranged in age from 27 to 61 years, and three were women.
“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 in a news conference Sunday. “Something like this is, of course thank God, an anomaly. It’s a terrible thing that happened this morning but we’re going to investigate and get to the bottom of what went down.”
NYPD data shows shootings are down this year. Police data shows 489 people were shot from January through July, the lowest during the first seven months of a calendar year in the city since 2017.
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