One of the men killed in Sunday’s mass shooting at a Brooklyn lounge was a “peacemaker” trying to break up a fight in the crowded club not long before the shooting erupted, a sibling and a pal told the Daily News.

Jamel Andre Childs, 35, was trying to cool tempers down inside Taste of the City Lounge on Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights, a role he often takes when he sees a situation about to turn violent, friend Rajawn Philips said.

“He was a cool dude,” said Philips.49, who works at a smoke shop next door to the club. “You know when you go to clubs, you got the crowd of knuckleheads? He’s the one on the side, ‘Like, chill the f— out.’… He’s one of the ones like, ‘Stop that dumb s—.’”

Childs’ brother described him in similar terms.

“He was trying to stop a fight … That sounds exactly

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