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Fans and Friends React to Murder-Suicide Involving an Iranian Band

Early Monday, a rock musician in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, killed three members of a rock band of Iranian expatriates before taking his own life, the police and neighbors said. The victims were believed to be members of the band the Yellow Dogs. The gunman was believed to be another Iranian-American musician, the police said.

The band’s Twitter profile calls them “a post punk/dance punk band from Tehran/Iran, living in Brooklyn at the moment.”

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As fans, friends and musicians woke to news of the shooting deaths, their reactions made it onto social media sites.