On July 10, 2020, 18-year-old Shamel Boomer was shot and killed in the Sunborn Hotel in East New York, Brooklyn. Boomer, a Black resident of Brownsville and reportedly affiliated with the WOOO gang, had checked into the hotel that day with two companions to play video games. Members of a rival group, Bergen Fam, were also at the hotel.

The bullet punctured both lungs and the pulmonary trunk; Boomer was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Video surveillance and DNA from a soda can in a hotel room were cited in the investigation, and the shooting set off a wave of retaliatory violence between rival crews.

Does anyone have information about Boomer’s movements that afternoon or remember seeing him at the Sunborn Hotel?