{"id":153618,"date":"2025-08-17T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153618\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:17:11","slug":"new-york-club-shooting-3-killed-8-injured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153618\/","title":{"rendered":"New York club shooting: 3 killed, 8 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA club shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Sunday morning has left three people dead and nine others wounded in a year of record-low gun violence in the city.Investigators believe up to four shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City Lounge in Crown Heights after a dispute just before 3:30 a.m. The violence appeared to be gang-related, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters.\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible shooting that occurred in the city of New York,\u201d Tisch said at a news briefing, later calling the killings \u201ca tragic, senseless act of violence.\u201dInvestigators found at least 42 shell casings from nine millimeter and 45-caliber weapons and a firearm in a nearby street.Those wounded in the shooting were are being treated at hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries, Tisch said. The ages of the victims range from 19 to 61. A 19-year-old man died at the scene and two other men \u2014 ages 35 and 27 \u2014 died after being transported to a hospital.Mayor Eric Adams said crisis management teams had been mobilized to provide trauma services and facilitate mediation efforts with the victims&#8217; 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&#8217;s crime stoppers line, 800-577-TIPS.\u201cIf you were inside the club, if you heard individuals talking about this shooting, if you witnessed someone fleeing the location, every piece of information will allow us to put the puzzle together,&#8221; Adams said.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.\u201cSomething like this is, of course, thank God, an anomaly and it&#8217;s a terrible thing that happened this morning, but we&#8217;re going to investigate and get to the bottom of what went down,\u201d she said.The incident comes on the heels of multiple shootings this summer, including a shooting earlier this month in the city\u2019s famed Times Square that left three people injured and the high-profile shooting in a Manhattan skyscraper that killed four people in July.There have been 272 mass shootings in the United States this year alone, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which like CNN, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured, excluding the shooter.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">KINGS COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text\">A club shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Sunday morning has left three people dead and nine others wounded in a year of record-low gun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-city.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">violence in the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe up to four shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City Lounge in Crown Heights after a dispute just before 3:30 a.m. The violence appeared to be gang-related, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible shooting that occurred in the city of New York,\u201d Tisch said at a news briefing, later calling the killings \u201ca tragic, senseless act of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found at least 42 shell casings from nine millimeter and 45-caliber weapons and a firearm in a nearby street.<\/p>\n<p>Those wounded in the shooting were are being treated at hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries, Tisch said. The ages of the victims range from 19 to 61. A 19-year-old man died at the scene and two other men \u2014 ages 35 and 27 \u2014 died after being transported to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams said crisis management teams had been mobilized to provide trauma services and facilitate mediation efforts with the victims&#8217; 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&#8217;s crime stoppers line, 800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were inside the club, if you heard individuals talking about this shooting, if you witnessed someone fleeing the location, every piece of information will allow us to put the puzzle together,&#8221; Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething like this is, of course, thank God, an anomaly and it&#8217;s a terrible thing that happened this morning, but we&#8217;re going to investigate and get to the bottom of what went down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes on the heels of multiple shootings this summer, including a shooting earlier this month in the city\u2019s famed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/09\/us\/new-york-times-square-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Times Square that left three people injured<\/a> and the high-profile shooting in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/03\/us\/manhattan-shooting-timeline-911-calls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan skyscraper<\/a> that killed four people in July.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 272 mass shootings in the United States this year alone, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which like CNN, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured, excluding the shooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A club shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Sunday morning has left three people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,89643,89664,89644,32675,89645,89646,89662,38535,89647,89648,89649,89650,5025,4222,8141,18030,89651,70190,9105,89663,405,403,89660,5226,5225,5228,5227,89652,89653,89654,89655,89656,89657,89658,89659,66160,101,83672,89661,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7307,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-153618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn-crime-news","10":"tag-brooklyn-neighborhood","11":"tag-brooklyn-nightclub-shooting","12":"tag-brooklyn-shooting","13":"tag-brooklyn-shooting-injuries","14":"tag-brooklyn-shooting-victims","15":"tag-city-lounge","16":"tag-crown-heights","17":"tag-crown-heights-community","18":"tag-crown-heights-crime","19":"tag-crown-heights-shooting","20":"tag-crown-heights-tragedy","21":"tag-fire","22":"tag-gun-violence","23":"tag-incident","24":"tag-investigator","25":"tag-jessica-tisch-statement","26":"tag-kmnd","27":"tag-month","28":"tag-multiple-weapon","29":"tag-new-york","30":"tag-new-york-city","31":"tag-new-york-city-gun-violence","32":"tag-newyork","33":"tag-newyorkcity","34":"tag-ny","35":"tag-nyc","36":"tag-nyc-club-shooting","37":"tag-nyc-firearms-incident","38":"tag-nyc-gun-control","39":"tag-nyc-low-gun-violence","40":"tag-nyc-police-investigation","41":"tag-nyc-shooting-deaths","42":"tag-nyc-shooting-investigation","43":"tag-nyc-shooting-statistics","44":"tag-shooter","45":"tag-shooting","46":"tag-taste","47":"tag-taste-of-the-city-lounge","48":"tag-united-states","49":"tag-united-states-of-america","50":"tag-unitedstates","51":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","52":"tag-us","53":"tag-usa","54":"tag-victim","55":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}