NEW YORK — A musician shot and killed two members of an Iranian indie rock band and a third musician early Monday and wounded a fourth person at their apartment before killing himself on the roof, police and the group’s manager said.
Two of the dead were brothers and members of the Yellow Dogs, who came to the United States from Iran three years ago after appearing in a film about the underground music scene there, band manger Ali Salehezadeh said.
Another person killed was also a musician but was not in the band.
The wounded person was an artist, he said.
The shooter was a member of another band from Iran, the Free Keys, who knew the victims but had not spoken to them in months because of a ‘‘petty conflict,’’ Salehezadeh said.
Preliminary police reports said the shooter had been a member of the Yellow Dogs but was kicked out.
Commissioner Raymond Kelly said it appeared to be a dispute over money, but police were investigating the motive.