Search continues for gunmen after 3 killed in New York city nightclub shooting.
New York City, Aug 17 (EFE).
New York City authorities continued to search Sunday for gunmen who opened fire in a nightclub, killing three people and wounding nine in the early morning.
“Last night, we lost three New Yorkers and nine more are in the hospital after a horrific act of gun violence at a nightclub in Crown Heights,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that up to four suspects opened fire around 3.30 am local time Sunday inside the Taste of the City Lounge in the Brooklyn neighborhood after an apparent dispute.
“Currently, we have identified 12 victims ranging in age from 19 to 61, nine males and three females,” Tisch said.
“Three of the victims have been pronounced dead. One male, age 27, and one male, age 35, who succumbed to their injuries at the hospital, as well as one male, age 19, who was pronounced on scene.”
“The nine remaining victims are at local area hospitals with what is being described right now as non-life threatening injuries,” she added.
Tisch said 42 bullet casings from “multiple” 9 mm and 45 caliber weapons were recovered after the shootings.
The incident appears to be gang-related, she said, to which she attributed around 60 percent of shootings in the city.
A non-fatal shooting occurred at the same club last November.
Mayor Adams mobilized a team of police officers, religious leaders, and crisis management teams to “respond to this incident, as well as work with the friends and families of victims to stop any potential retaliatory action.”
He emphasized that this is the second mass shooting in the city in as many weeks and pledged to devote more efforts to prevention after a gunman opened fire in a Manhattan office building in late July, killing four people before shooting himself dead. EFE
