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4 dead, several injured at shooting in Brooklyn ‘gambling’ den : cops
 [NYPOST] Four men were killed inside an after-hours club in Brooklyn early Saturday when a gambler opened fire, sparking a wild shootout, police and sources said."Go fer yer guns, Buck!" The chaos unfolded just before 7 a.m. at an after-hours club called Triple A Aces on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, cops said. "Call." "Whaddya got?" "Five aces!" Around 30 people ‐ including several strippers ‐ "Bring dem boobies over here and bring me luck, baby!" were inside the small club, gambling with cards and playing the dice game cee-lo, when one of the players pulled out a gun in an attempt to rob his fellow gamblers, sources said. "I think that there pot is mine!" It was unclear whether the shooter ‐ who had been gambling for about an hour before the fatal shootout ‐ was upset over losing money or had come to the club to steal cash, sources said. "One or the other." "That's right, Bart!" As shootout began, another reveler pulled out their own weapon, shooting and killing the would-be robber, according to sources. [BANG!] "Aaaiiieee! Y'got me, Bart!" The scene was "mayhem" as the bullets flew and panicked party-goers fled through different entrances of the club, a high-ranking law enforcement source told the Post. "Yep. That's right. It wuz bullets and boobies, all over the place!" "People were trying to get out," the source added. "Nobody wanted to stay!" In all, four men were pronounced dead at the scene and five others were hurt, including several who were hit by gunfire, officials said. "I wuz hit by a booby. Hurt like the dickens, it did." Medics rushed three of the injured to Brookdale University Medical Center and two to Kings County Hospital, officials said. "Doctor Quincy to the white courtesy phone!" One victim sustained a leg injury while fleeing the chaos, police said. "Hey! Look out!" [TRIP!] "Ow! My leg!" The maimed ‐ two of whom lived out of state ‐ Dat'd be Noo Joisey... range in age from 32 to 49 years old, police said. "They ain't kids. They just thought they wuz." At least 15 rounds were fired, Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said at a news briefing outside the club, where he praised responding officers. Fifteen rounds, four dead, five wounded, at close quarters. Two guns, a 9mm and a revolver, were found at the scene‐though Shea said there may be more. If it's a revolver they call it a .357 or a .38... But landlord Samuel Revells, who owns the building, claims he knew nothing of the club’s after-hours operations. "I know nothing! No-thing! Tell them, Hogan!" "I thought they were having birthday parties, things for funerals in there," he claimed. "In the two years since I leased it to them, we haven’t had any problems, no police." Posted by: Fred 2019-10-13 |
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