NEW YORK -- Three people are dead and eight others are wounded after a shooting at a New York City lounge early Sunday, police officials said. The shooting happened just before 3:30 a.m. local time inside the Taste of the City lounge in Crown Heights, Brooklyn at 903 Franklin Avenue.

The men were among 11 people hit by gunfire in the Taste of the City Lounge on Franklin Avenue, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a press conference. A total of eight men and three women were shot amid a dispute in the lounge, she said. The initial 911 call was received at about 3:27 a.m., the NYPD said.

There was an alarming outbreak of gun violence in New York City this weekend after a total of 10 people were shot in six separate shootings. The shootings, which police say were unrelated, all happened early Saturday night into early Sunday morning.

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The day of the shooting, a judge had issued an arrest order for Justin York, accusing him of tampering with an ankle monitor he was wearing on earlier charges.