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Officials warn of retaliation risk after Brooklyn hookah bar mass shooting
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Phil Corso
Published Aug 17, 2025
Modified Aug 18, 2025
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City officials said they’re bracing for potential retaliation after a mass shooting left three dead and 10 others wounded at a Brooklyn hookah bar early Sunday morning.
Mayor Eric Adams said the city’s crisis management teams have already been mobilized in Crown Heights to work with victims' families and help prevent further violence.
“We’re always concerned after a shooting,” Adams said during a press conference. “Retaliatory shootings will follow if we don’t get on the ground with our crisis management team and other partners.”
Police late Sunday identified the three people who were killed as 19-year-old Marvin St. Louis of Prospect Lefferts Garden, 27-year-old Amadou Diallo of Harlem and 35-year-old Jamel Childs of Flatlands. Officials said the investigation was ongoing.
The shooting was the second mass shooting in New York City in just three weeks, renewing concerns about the potential for retaliatory violence and the need for rapid, community-based intervention, officials said. While overall shootings are down citywide this year, city leaders said gang-related gun violence still poses a serious threat in some neighborhoods.
AT Mitchell-Mann, founder of Man Up! Inc., a longtime gun violence intervention leader in Brooklyn, echoed the mayor’s concern.
“Mass shootings require mass resources,” he said, noting that violence interrupters, trained community members who work to prevent shootings and retaliatory violence, were already deployed.
The NYPD said the shooting appears to have been gang-related, with four suspected shooters firing at the Taste of the City Lounge.
As of Sunday afternoon, no arrests had been made, according to authorities.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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