Jamel Andre Childs, 35, tried to cool tempers down at Taste of the City lounge in Crown Heights before the gunfight erupted, friends say.

Three people were killed and another 10 were injured in an overnight shooting involving multiple gunmen at a Brooklyn nightclub, police said Sunday. The dead were identified by the New York Police Department on Sunday night as Marvin St. Louis, 19, of Brooklyn; Amadou Diallo, 27, of Upper Manhattan; and Jamel Childs, 35, of Brooklyn.

At least three people have died and eight are injured following a shooting at Taste of the City Lounge in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday, Aug. 17, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD). Police suspect that multiple shooters were involved in the incident.