Rejected musician gunman shoots dead three bandmates before killing himself A MUSICIAN furious over being thrown out of a rock band has extracted bloody revenge, using a military-style rifle to shoot dead three of his bandmates before taking his own life, law enforcement sources said. Gunman Raefe Ahkbar was reportedly kicked out of Iranian rock group The Yellow Dogs for stealing before he slaughtered three of his former friends. Armed with a Century Sporter .308-caliber semi-automatic weapon with a 20-round magazine, Ahkbar allegedly shot dead the band's 27-year-old guitarist, Soroush Farazmand, in a second-floor bedroom and then climbed to the third floor where he killed singer Ali Eskandarian, 35, and drummer Arash Farazmand. He also allegedly shot Sasan Sadeghpourosko, 22, twice in the arm outside the Brooklyn, New York, building just after midnight on Monday EST (4pm Monday AEDT). The band's Facebook page identifies other members as guitarist Siavash Karampour and bassist Koory Mirzeai, who were not injured. The killer angrily confronted one of the bandmates before the shootings, sources said. "He said something like "Why did you bring me over here [from Iran] and then throw me out?"" a source said. Crime scene personnel work at a crime scene in the Brooklyn section of New York. A musician shot and killed two members of an Iranian indie rock band, the Yellow Dogs, and a third musician, and wounded a fourth person at their apartment before killing himself on the roof, police and the group's manager said. The shooter was a member of another band from Iran, the Free Keys, who knew the victims but hadn't spoken to them in months because of a "petty conflict," according to Yellow Dogs manger Ali Salehezadeh. Neighbors were stunned by the carnage and had kind words for the band members. You always see them coming in and out of their house with their musical instruments in cases. They seemed like great kids, never bothered anybody," Martin Greenman, 63, said. They resembled each other with the curly black hair and the tight jeans. They looked like typical hipsters. A neighbour reported hearing multiple gunshots. "There were 45 shots in succession, they sounded like fireworks going off," Marcus Durant, 56, an electrician who lives nearby, said. There were three or four Iranian kids who looked like brothers. They would ride up and down the street on their skateboards and they were generally very pleasant kids. Picture: WABC