2 gunmen in Brooklyn mass shooting were killed, NYPD says
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The New York City mayor's race candidates honed in on fighting crime and prostitution after the mass shooting took quality of life issues front and center.
Multiple individuals were transported to local hospitals. However, their conditions were not immediately released.
Law enforcement officials say a shooter or shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City Lounge in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.
"They’re obviously looking to see if they’re part of that same robbery pattern involving the CBP agent shot,'' a law-enforcement source said.
The three victims were identified by police as 35-year-old Jamel Childs, 27-year-old Amadou Diallo and 19-year-old Marvin St. Louis. WABC-TV's Crystal Cranmore reports.
The Brooklyn hookah lounge where three people were killed and nine others wounded early Sunday was right at the scene of another shooting less than a year ago.
NYPD Detective Didarul Islam's widow Jamila gave birth to the couple's third son, Arham, the department shared on social media.
The widow of the NYPD cop killed in the Park Avenue mass shooting has welcomed a baby boy three weeks after her husband died. Officer Didarul Islam was working an off-duty security job on July 28 when gunman Shane Tamura opened fire at the building that houses the NFL headquarters.