(NewsNation) — Three people are dead and eight others were injured in a shooting at a club in Brooklyn, New York, early Sunday morning.
The shooting took place around 3:00 a.m. at the Taste of the City Lounge in the Crown Heights neighborhood. Multiple shooters were involved, police said, with the New York City Police Department recovering multiple guns and at least 36 shell casings from the scene. No arrests have been made as of Sunday morning.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the shooting comes amid a seven month lull in gun violence in the city.
“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. “But we are going to investigate and get to the bottom of what went down.
According to NYPD, the three people killed were men. Those injured were transferred to local hospitals. The victims range in age from 27 to 61 years old.
Crown Heights is a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. According to the UJA Federation of New York, Crown Heights is home to an estimated 41,000 Jewish people.
NewsNation will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Meg Hilling
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.newsnationnow.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.
