A night of fun turned into a morning of terror as dozens of shots rang out inside a packed Crown Heights hookah lounge before dawn Sunday. PIX11 News spoke with some of the survivors and victims of the mass shooting,

Within minutes, officers arrived, finding that nine men and three women, ranging in age from 19 to 61, had been shot. Three men died. Marvin St. Louis, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene. Amadou Diallo, 27, and Jamel Childs, 35, were critically wounded and succumbed to their injuries at the hospital.

Jamel Andre Childs, 35, tried to cool tempers down at Taste of the City lounge in Crown Heights before the gunfight erupted, friends say.