Overview

• Officers responded within minutes of multiple 911 calls and found 11 shooting victims inside the Taste of the City Lounge, including three men later pronounced dead.
• Police recovered at least 36 shell casings inside the lounge and discovered a firearm nearby at Bedford Avenue and Eastern Parkway.
• Investigators are reviewing security camera footage and witness accounts as police treat the incident as potentially gang-related.
• City crisis-management teams have been deployed in Crown Heights to support affected residents and to help forestall retaliatory violence.
• The attack stands out during one of New York City’s lowest shooting rates on record and follows a mass shooting in Manhattan last month.