NEW YORK >> Four people opened fire at a bar in New York City’s Brooklyn borough early Sunday, killing three and wounding nine others in what appeared to be a gang-related attack that sent patrons diving for cover and running for the exits.
Police said the shooters used 9 mm and .45-caliber firearms after a “dispute” at the bar, Taste of the City Lounge at 903 Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, around 3:30 a.m. Nine men and three women were shot, their ages ranging from 19 to 61, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Sunday.
Three men were killed, ages 19, 27 and 35, police said. Around 10:20 a.m., police wheeled out a gurney bearing what appeared to be a body in a black bag. Officers loaded it into a black-and-white city van.
The nine people who were wounded w