Three dead, eight wounded in mass shooting at Brooklyn lounge

Rocco Parascandola and John Annese, New York Daily News on Aug 17, 2025

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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 Avenue near Carroll Street 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.”

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

Pierre Tutu, 50, heard the shots while standing near his parked car down the street, he told the New York Times.

“There were a lot of them,” he said. “People were flying all over the place trying to save their lives.”

“I saw people, shot, all over the place,” he added. “Sitting, waiting for help, screaming, crying.”

The dead include two men, ages 35 and 27, and a third whose age is not yet known. They died at the scene.

Five men and three women were wounded but survived, the oldest 61 and the youngest 27, according to police sources. They were all hospitalized and are expected to recover.

Customer James Jones left the lounge around 3 a.m., returning to his home across the street, he told The Times. He went back outside after getting a call from a friend about what happened.

“Five, six people outside shot,” Jones told The Times. “People over here shot, people over there shot.”

It’s the second shooting at the club in less than a year. A 28-year-old man survived being shot in the back and arm in front of the club about 4 a.m. Nov. 17, according to police.

The victim told cops he was standing outside the lounge when two men he didn’t know approached him and started arguing with him, cop sources said. One of them whipped out a gun and opened fire.

In February, cops released surveillance footage of a suspect they were still looking for in that shooting and asked the public’s help identifying him.

Taste of the City serves Caribbean fusion cuisine and has a full bar with hookahs, DJs and live music.

The explosion of violence at the lounge Sunday was 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 Sunday outside Taste of the City.

“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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