New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined elected officials, anti-violence activists and neighbors on Monday for a vigil at the Brooklyn lounge where three people were shot and killed. Police said shots rang out around 3:30 a.

He always brought candy to my kids,” stray bullet victim Amadou Diallo’s sister said. “They loved him like he was their own father.”

City officials said they’re bracing for potential retaliation after a mass shooting left three dead and 10 others wounded at a Brooklyn hookah bar early Sunday morning. Mayor Eric Adams said the city’s crisis management teams have already been mobilized in Crown Heights to work with victims' families and help prevent further violence.

Three people are dead and nine are injured after multiple shooters opened fire in a New York City lounge, the New York City Police Department says.

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.

Police say the officer was standing outside a residential building near West 173rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue around 9:45 p.m. when two men approached him on separate mopeds.