New Yorkers woke up Sunday morning to the grim news of another mass shooting overnight — the second this summer — at a nightclub in Brooklyn.

Gunmen walked into the Taste of the City club in Crown Heights and opened fire on the crowd inside in the wee hours of Aug. 17, killing no fewer than three people and leaving nine others wounded. Following a preliminary investigation, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch reported Sunday morning, police believe the shooting may have been related to gang activity.

If true, it would not come as a shock to the NYPD. Tisch noted that 60% of shootings in New York City are gang-related. In spite of the carnage inflicted in Brooklyn Sunday, the city’s top cop reminded that shootings are at a historic low in 2025 (412 through July), and more guns have been tak

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