Three people were fatally shot and eight others wounded in an overnight attack at a Brooklyn nightclub, according to media, which cited New York City

A shooting in a New York bar has left three people dead and eight people hospitalised, police have said. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told a press conference that the shooting happened in a crowded nightclub called Taste of the City in Brooklyn.

Within minutes, officers arrived at 903 Franklin Avenue, finding that nine men and three women, ranging in age from 19 to 61, had been shot. Three men died. One man, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other men, 27 and 35, were critically wounded and succumbed to their injuries at the hospital.

A mass shooting at a Brooklyn restaurant left three people dead and at least eight others injured early Sunday, New York police reported.

Three people were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting inside a restaurant in New York City's Brooklyn area on Sunday morning. According to the New York City Police, the shooting took place inside Taste of the City Lounge in the Crown Heights neighbourhood at around 3.30am.

Jessica Tisch called on Albany to do more to help those suffering from mental illness, who, she said, are the ones causing the random, violent attacks that plague the city — because “it