Sunday, October 13, 2019 CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) - Police are trying to determine what led to the shooting at an illegal gambling site in Brooklyn that left four men dead and three other. Gunfire broke out inside an illegal gambling club in Brooklyn early Saturday, police said, leaving four people dead, three wounded, and investigators trying to piece together what prompted the bloodshed. The shooting inside the small, nondescript club started just before 7 a.m. As around 15 people were gambling with dice and cards, police said. At a news conference hours later, Chief of. 4 dead in shooting at illegal gambling site in Brooklyn NYPD investigates the scene of a shooting in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Saturday, Oct. Authorities responded to a call about shots fired just before 7 a.m. And found four men dead in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn at an address that corresponds to a private.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — The four people killed when gunfire erupted at an illegal gambling club in Brooklyn were all local men, police said Sunday as they continue to investigate the circumstances of their deaths.
The NYPD identified the dead as Terence Bishop, 36; Dominick Wimbush, 47; Chester Goode, 37; and John Thomas, 32. Three other people were wounded but expected to survive.
Police said just over a dozen people had been gambling with dice and cards at the small club when the violence erupted just before 7 a.m. Saturday.
The unlicensed club had a sign identifying it as the 'Triple A Aces Private & Social Event Space.' It was on the first floor of an older wood-frame townhouse on a block with some empty storefronts and boarded-up buildings.
Investigators were determining if a gambling dispute, a robbery, or something else was to blame. Two handguns were recovered, and multiple shots were fired.
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The local police precinct headquarters is two blocks away, and authorities said officers had not previously received any complaints about the location. There was no immediate sign that the shootings had any connection to gangs, which have been a problem in that part of Brooklyn.
But area residents told The New York Times that complaints had been made to the police. Jose Torres, who lives nearby, said officers had responded to a fight outside the club just a few weeks ago.
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Isaac Mickens, a community organizer, described it to the Times as a 'hole-in-the-wall gambling den' that was 'real tight, real small, casual, low-key.' Samuel Revells told the Times that he was the building owner and had leased the event space out but didn't say to whom.