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Bullets fly at notorious NYC night club as 4 people hit by gunfire: cops

Nypost · · 324 words · By David DeTurris
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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Four men were shot and wounded by gunfire inside a notorious Queens nightclub with a track record of gun violence, cops said.”
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Multiple web search results report that people were shot at a nightclub in Queens, specifically mentioning Amadeus nightclub and a history of violence. This meets the threshold of multiple independent web reports.
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web search NEUTRAL — ELMHURST, Queens (WABC) -- New York City police are investigating after several people were shot at a club in Queens early Sunday morning. It happened inside a night club called Amadeus at 79-51 ...
https://abc7ny.com/post/queens-nightclub-shooting-4-shot-ins…
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web search NEUTRAL — Four people were wounded early Sunday in a shooting at a troubled Queens nightclub with a history of violence and murder. Gunshots put a bloody end to the partying inside Amadeus nightclub on ...
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/26/four-wounded-in-shoot…
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web search NEUTRAL — Four men in their 20s were wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting outside Amadeus Nightclub on Albion Avenue near Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, Queens, according to police.
https://hoodline.com/2026/04/elmhurst-nightclub-chaos-as-fou…
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“Bullets turned the dance floor inside Amadeus nightclub in Elmhurst into a bloodbath around 3:40 a.m. on Sunday, according to the NYPD.”
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The specific details ('3:40 a.m. on Sunday') are not independently corroborated across the provided web search results. The web results confirm a shooting at Amadeus nightclub in Elmhurst, but the precise time is only mentioned in the claim itself, not confirmed by multiple sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — Along with your preferred bullets, shop our top-quality powder, primers and brass. To keep your ammo safe and secure after reloading, check out our wide selection of ammo cases.
https://www.natchezss.com/reloading/bullets-shot
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https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/dept/reloading/rifle-…
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“When cops arrived, they found two 28-year-old men who’d been hit by gunfire – one who had been grazed in the head and another struck in the face, police said.”
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While the web search results discuss shootings and injuries, the specific details—'two 28-year-old men,' 'one grazed in the head,' and 'another struck in the face'—are not consistently reported across the multiple search snippets. The evidence is suggestive but lacks the necessary corroboration from multiple independent sources to confirm these exact details.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The police are a constituted body of people empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself. This commonly includes ensuring the saf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Police are organizations established to maintain law and order. Police may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_(disambiguation)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. Their core line-up comprised Sting (lead vocals, bass, primary songwriter), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Police
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“The two were taken to Elmhurst Hospital by EMS, where they were in stable condition, according to authorities.”
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The claim that the two men were taken to Elmhurst Hospital and were in stable condition is not directly corroborated by multiple independent sources. The evidence provided for this claim is limited to general information about Elmhurst Hospital.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elmhurst (formerly Newtown) is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bounded by Roosevelt Avenue on the north; the Long Island Expressway on the south; Junction Boulevard on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmhurst,_Queens
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golden Corridor is the area around the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (Interstate 90), formerly known as the Northwest Tollway, in the Chicago metropolitan area. Its name refers to the "gold" mine o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Corridor
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Queens Hospital Center (QHC), also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens and originally called Queens General Hospital, is a large public hospital campus in the Jamaica Hills and Hillcrest neighborho…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Hospital_Center
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“Investigators later found two other victims who had been victims of the violence – a 25-year-old man at Elmhurst Hospital with wounds to his abdomen and arm and a 24-year-old man at Kings County Hospital with a wound to his arm.”
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The specific details regarding the two other victims (25-year-old at Elmhurst with abdominal/arm wounds, and 24-year-old at Kings County with arm wound) are not corroborated by multiple independent sources. The evidence provided is general information about local hospitals.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elmhurst Hospital Center (EHC), also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, is a 545-bed public hospital in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It is one of the 11 acute care hosp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmhurst_Hospital_Center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Misericordia Hospital is a 3-block medical center in the Bronx, New York City. that opened in 1887 in Staten Island, moved to Manhattan in 1889, and moved to The Bronx in 1958. The hospital was rename…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericordia_Hospital
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NYC Health + Hospitals, officially the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City as a public benefit corporation. NYC Health + Ho…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC_Health_+_Hospitals
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“The nightclub is no stranger to shootings, having been the site of gun violence the past few years.”
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Two separate web search results explicitly state that the nightclub has a history of violence, referencing 'two other incidents' and a 'history of violence,' corroborating the claim that the club is known for gun violence.
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web search NEUTRAL — The club has been the site of two other incidents of gun violence over the years, according to prior police reports. Google Maps. A dispute inside the club became violent and led to a shooting that ki…
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/bullets-fly-at-notorio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Bullets flew near a Queens nightclub with a history of violence on Sunday in a shooting that left three people injured, police reported.No arrests have been made in Sunday’s shooting, police reported.…
https://www.amny.com/news/queens-nightclub-shooting-05182025…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to this definition, there have been 146 incidents of gun violence this year.This incident was the worst school shooting in Austria’s history. School shootings with casualties in 2025.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/28/how-many-school-sho…
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“A dispute inside the club became violent and led to a shooting that killed a 19-year-old man and wounded a 31-year-old woman in 2023, cops said.”
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While the web search results mention past shootings at the club, the specific details of a shooting in 2023 resulting in the death of a 19-year-old man and wounding a 31-year-old woman are not independently corroborated across the provided evidence. The evidence is suggestive of past violence but not specific enough to confirm this exact historical event.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…
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“And just last year, three people were wounded inside a Rolls Royce waiting just outside the club after a gunman started shooting up the car, police said.”
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Two different web search results describe shootings occurring outside a club/area involving vehicles and multiple wounded people, suggesting a pattern of such events, although the specific details (Rolls Royce, 'last year') are not confirmed by a second independent source. However, the general theme of vehicle-related shootings outside a club is reported by multiple sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — TREMONT, Bronx (WABC) -- Three people were shot, one fatally, when a pacing gunman suddenly opened fire on a smoke shop in the Bronx early Tuesday. Police say the gunman fired multiple shots into the …
https://abc7ny.com/post/shooting-in-bronx-today-tremont-nypd…
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web search NEUTRAL — Gunman wanted over fatal Somerset shooting hands himself into police.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/
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web search NEUTRAL — Authorities said a crowd of people were outside the club when a car drove by and someone inside shot at the crowd, shooting about seven people, killing at least two of them. The motive is still under …
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/07/14/7-shot-a…
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“City Council members Phil Wong and Shekar Krishnan issued a joint statement saying they were “deeply troubled by the shooting.””
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or cross-references regarding a joint statement from City Council members Phil Wong and Shekar Krishnan about this specific shooting.
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