Brooklyn Hookah Lounge Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 3 Wounded: Police

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One young man is dead and three others are wounded, including a young woman, after a 3 a.m. shooting on Friday morning at the Buda Restaurant and Hookah Lounge in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, according to the NYPD.

Buda Lounge moved in at 589 Flatbush Avenue earlier this year, and shares a space with a popular Caribbean food chain called Ali’s Roti Shop. The hookah lounge stays open most nights until 4 a.m.

On its website, Buda Lounge calls itself “Brooklyn’s newest hotspot,” and invites locals to ”come dance the night away at our sexy venue or join us for dinner.”

The lounge did not immediately return a call for comment. No one was picking up the phone Friday morning at Ali’s Roti Shop.

Here is the status of last night’s four shooting victims:

• 27-year-old male shot in the head and torso. Pronounced deceased at Kings County Hospital in Prospect Lefferts-Gardens. Identity withheld pending proper family notification.

• 25-year-old male shot in the right foot.

• 25-year-old female shot in the torso.
  

• 28-year-old male grazed in the head.
  

Another 25-year-old woman reportedly “suffered a cut leg from flying glass when the shop window was shattered during the chaos,” but is in stable condition.

In an interview with CBS New York, a nearby resident said that ever since the hookah bar opened, people have been drinking and fighting in front of 589 Flatbush into the wee hours.