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Report: Brooklyn musician kills Yellow Dog bandmates, self after allegedly getting kicked out

Photo: Reuters/Lucas Jackson

UPDATE: The Yellow Dogs publicist has issued a statement regarding misinformation about the shooter.

UPDATE: It’s looking like the band in question is the Yellow Dogs, a dance punk quartet who released Upper Class Complexity last year.

According to their Wiki: They sing in English and play Western instruments, citing Joy Division as an influence. Their music was not approved by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and was therefore Illegal. They performed in Bahman Ghobadi’s Cannes Un Certain Regard award winning film, No One Knows About Persian Cats[2][3] and were interviewed by Reza Sayah for CNN before leaving Iran.[4]

A Brooklyn musician upset at being kicked out of his band turned a rifle on his bandmates this morning, killing three before shooting himself on the roof of a Bushwick building. The band has not been identified, but the Post says it was made up of Iranians who has been in the country for a while and were seeking asylum. The shooter also fired shots into a first-floor bathroom where another couple were hiding, but they were not harmed.

The Post is reporting the building is in Bushwick, while others are reporting it’s in Williamsburg. We’ll update this breaking story as more details emerge. According to the New York Post:

A musician furious over being thrown out of a rock band extracted bloody revenge in an early morning attack in Brooklyn Monday — using a military-style rifle to fatally shoot three people believed to be bandmates, wound another person and then take his own life, law enforcement sources said.

The triple-homicide took place at 318 Maujer St., a Bushwick building where at least some members of the band are believed to live.

The killer, brandishing a Century Sporter .308-caliber semi-automatic weapon with a 20-round magazine, showed up around midnight and opened fire on a person standing outside.

That person was wounded.

Then he stormed into the building and kept firing off round after round.

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