On the last night of 2019, hours before the new year, 27-year-old Richard Hall was shot inside the New Ebony Hotel on West 112th Street in Harlem. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Saint Luke’s hospital. The shooting occurred around 11 p.m.

Police released surveillance footage showing a man leaving the hotel shortly after the shooting. That man was identified as 27-year-old Clifton Thomas of East Harlem. Thomas fled to Maine after the shooting and was later jailed there for assaulting his girlfriend. In October 2022, Thomas was arrested, returned to New York after finishing his Maine sentence, and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon; he was ordered held without bail at arraignment.

Are there witnesses or anyone who stayed at the New Ebony Hotel that night who can add details about what happened?