There were no suspects or arrests in the shooting, the police said; they believe there was only one shooter, but even that was unclear Sunday night. The event, which was originally to be held at the club Djumbala in Canarsie, Brooklyn, was moved to the Elks Plaza after four men were stabbed on Saturday morning at Djumbala at a party for the film “Notorious,” the police and Ms. Pryear’s parents said.  In that stabbing, one man remained in critical condition at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center on Sunday, and the other three victims were in stable condition. The police said on Sunday that it was unclear whether there was a connection between the stabbings and the shooting.  Ms. Pryear’s parents said they did not think the Elks Plaza was safe, and that had they known Nyasia was going there, they would have forbidden her from doing so.  Her father, Alberto C. Yard, 40, said, “She had to pay with her life to learn the hard way.”  Mr. Yard said that when he heard about the shooting early Sunday morning, he rushed to Kings County Hospital Center. By the time he learned his daughter was at Brooklyn Hospital and he arrived there, she was dead, he said.  “Her and her little girlfriends were celebrating that their graduation was coming up soon,” Mr. Miller said. “She wasn’t one to be in the streets. She was a good kid.”  Nyasia’s parents said she was an honor student at Nazareth Regional High School, a Catholic school that she attended on a partial scholarship and where she worked on the yearbook committee.  “She had a lot to offer, and they snatched her life,” her mother, Jennifer Pryear, 34, said.  Mr. Yard added, “They snatched a shining star.”  The family gathered for a news conference on Sunday night with speakers that included Anthony Herbert of the Urban Community Council, who directly addressed the shooter.  “You picked the wrong child to shoot,” he said. “You stepped in and you shot an innocent child from our community, and you will be apprehended. There was excellent surveillance at that place. We do have your image on television. So if you want to do yourself a favor, turn yourself in.”  A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A21 of the New York edition with the headline: Girl, 17, Is Killed As Gunfire Fills a Club. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
The girl was shot in the face and killed early Sunday after gang violence erupted at an event attended by about 500 teenagers in in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.