News is coming in this morning that four people are dead in a shooting that occurred last night around midnight at 318 Maujer Street (between Waterbury and Morgan) in East Williamsburg. At press time, the shooter, who was also found dead, has not been identified by the NYPD, but police sources have suggested that the motive was that he had had been kicked out of a band. The New York Times reports that neighbors identified the band as The Yellow Dogs, an Iranian band that lived in the building along with the Iranian graffiti artists Icy and Sot, according to Bedford and Bowery, and was a fixture on the local scene: they hosted big parties at their own home and had recent performance dates at Shea Stadium and Brooklyn Bowl. The Daily News identifies the victims as Soroush Farazmand, Arash Farazmand and Ali Eskandarian, all in their late 20’s or early 30’s. The Post states that the weapon used was a semi-automatic rifle found next to the shooter. The fourth victim was shot in the leg but survived, and is currently being treated at Elmhurst Hospital; two other people were in the building at the time of the shooting, and are being questioned by police detectives today.