On the morning of July 5, 2018, 28-year-old Khadeem Anderson, known in Crown Heights as Boom, was shot and killed inside the 555 Deli & Convenience on Utica Avenue. Anderson had stopped at the deli with his girlfriend after a Fourth of July barbecue and got into a verbal dispute with another man. As he turned to walk away, the other man drew a firearm and shot him in the back of the head. Emergency responders pronounced Anderson dead inside the deli. He was a father, leaving behind a two-year-old son.

The NYPD released surveillance footage showing a man in his 40s wearing a white t-shirt, multicolored shorts, white socks and dark sandals. Anderson’s mother, Angeleta Lewis, publicly pleaded for the shooter to surrender, and neighbors remembered Anderson as a well-liked regular at the deli. In November 2018 an arrest was announced: 36-year-old Carlos Lysius of Coney Island was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon after police said surveillance footage tied him to the argument and the shooting.