Three dead, eight wounded in mass shooting at Brooklyn lounge

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.”

It’s the second shooting at the club in less than a year. On Nov. 16, when, a 28-year-old man survived being shot multiple times in the arm at the lounge around 4 a.m., News 12 Brooklyn reported. Cops were looking for two suspects at the time.

Cops recovered one firearm close by the lounge near Bedford Ave. and Eastern Parkway, she said. Investigators are reviewing surveillance video and no arrests have been made so far.

The dead include two men, ages 35 and 27, and a third whose age is not yet known. Five men and three women were wounded but survived, the oldest 61 and the youngest 27, according to police sources.

It’s the second mass shooting in New York City in three weeks. On June 28, Shane Tamura opened fire with an assault rifle in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper, murdering an NYPD officer and three others before killing himself.

The violence comes as the city has seen significant drops in violent crimes through Aug. 10 compared to the same period last year, including a 24% drop in murders and a 21% drop in shootings.

“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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