The Brooklyn hookah lounge where three people were killed and nine others wounded early Sunday was right at the scene of another shooting less than a year ago.

The NYPD says 19-year-old Marvin St. Louis, 27-year-old Amadou Diallo, and 35-year-old Jamel Childs, were all shot and killed inside Taste of the City Lounge on Franklin Avenue. Detectives say Childs and Martin St. Lewis have been identified as the shooters.

The three people killed were all men who lived in New York City, and NYPD officials said two of them fired shots during the incident.

Chilling new video captures the moment dozens of panicked patrons run for their lives as deadly gunfire breaks out at a packed Brooklyn hookah lounge early Sunday.

A fatal Crown Heights shooting prompted New York City mayoral candidates to clash over crime policies as city grapples with recent surge in gun violence incidents.

Investigators believe a shooter or shooters opened fire with multiple weapons at Taste of the City Lounge in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Crown Heights. Those wounded in the shooting — eight men and three women — are being treated at hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries,