{"id":576935,"date":"2026-02-09T06:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/576935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:54:44","slug":"suspect-idd-in-deadly-nyc-hookah-lounge-shooting-that-killed-3-injured-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/576935\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect ID&#8217;d in deadly NYC hookah lounge shooting that killed 3, injured 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released the identity of the suspect wanted in connection with a caught-on-video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/17\/us-news\/chilling-video-shows-moments-during-nyc-mass-shooting-at-hookah-lounge-with-patrons-scrambling-in-fear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shootout at a Brooklyn hookah lounge<\/a>\u00a0over the summer that left three dead and 10 others wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Haile Cummings,\u00a034, was allegedly part of the three-man crew involved in the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/17\/us-news\/nyc-mass-shooting-leaves-multiple-wounded-inside-taste-of-the-city-lounge-brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> deadly shootout with rival gang members <\/a>at the Taste of the City Lounge in Crown Heights in the early hours of Aug. 17,\u00a0according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Cops released a photo of the accused gunman and are asking the public\u2019s help in locating him.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.76617954;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38432436\" width=\"367\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/903-franklin-avenue-confines-71-120667824.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Haile Cummings, a 34-year-old male with a beard.\" class=\"wp-image-38432436\"  \/>Haile Cummings,\u00a034, was allegedly part of the crew involved in the deadly shootout with rival gang members at the Taste of the City Lounge in Crown Heights in the early hours of Aug. 17. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>His alleged accomplice, Elijah \u201cEli Spice\u201d Roy, 25, an \u201cassociate\u201d of the 5-9 Brims Bloods crew, was also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/01\/us-news\/bloods-gangbanger-linked-to-nyc-hookah-lounge-shooting-that-killed-3-injured-10-more-feds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged in October as one of the gunmen <\/a>who blasted more than 40 gunshots in the packed bar in the span of just six seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Chilling footage showed the three alleged 5-9 Brim members walking into the lounge around 3 a.m. and spotting members of the rival Folk Nation Gangster Disciples, including Jamel Childs, who was killed when the shooting started.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38432437\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/30-m-police-said-dead-109730008.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD officers and detectives stand behind police tape at the scene of a mass shooting.\" class=\"wp-image-38432437\"  \/>Chilling footage showed the three 5-9 Brim members walking into the lounge around 3 a.m. and spotting members of the rival Folk Nation Gangster Disciples. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n<p>One of the 5-9 Brims members, identified by the feds as 19-year-old Marvin St. Louis was among those killed. Amadou Diallo, 27, who was a patron caught in the crossfire, also died from gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the shooting or Cummings\u2019 whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released the identity of the suspect wanted in connection with a caught-on-video\u00a0shootout at a Brooklyn hookah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":576936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,38535,12784,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-576935","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","10":"tag-crown-heights","11":"tag-gangs","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-shootings","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116039363068041589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576935","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=576935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}