New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined elected officials, anti-violence activists and neighbors on Monday for a vigil at the Brooklyn lounge where three people were shot and killed. Police said shots rang out around 3:30 a.

He always brought candy to my kids,” stray bullet victim Amadou Diallo’s sister said. “They loved him like he was their own father.”

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.

A fatal Crown Heights shooting prompted New York City mayoral candidates to clash over crime policies as city grapples with recent surge in gun violence incidents.

Chilling new video captures the moment dozens of panicked patrons run for their lives as deadly gunfire breaks out at a packed Brooklyn hookah lounge early Sunday.