{"id":21278,"date":"2025-10-29T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21278\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:12:17","slug":"wanted-suspect-identified-in-2024-shooting-death-of-24-year-old-brooklyn-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21278\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted suspect identified in 2024 shooting death of 24-year-old Brooklyn man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD cops have identified a suspect wanted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/05\/12\/man-24-fatally-shot-just-down-block-from-scene-of-2022-brooklyn-double-slay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting death of a 24-year-old man<\/a> outside the victim\u2019s Brooklyn home more than a year ago \u2014and are asking the public\u2019s help tracking the accused killer down.<\/p>\n<p>Jahmal Grant, 38, is wanted for the murder of Maurice Boodie on Strauss St. near Newport St. in Brownsville, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Grant allegedly shot Boodie in the chest and right leg about 12:10 a.m. May 12, 2024, before getting away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Maurice Boodie\" width=\"1125\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Maurice-Boodie.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7744367\" \/>Maurice Boodie<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Boodie to <a href=\"https:\/\/onebrooklynhealth.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brookdale University Hospital<\/a>, where he died about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family visiting the block after the shooting referred to Boodie as \u201cMo,\u201d with one cousin calling him \u201ca very good person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Man, 24, fatally shot just down block from scene of 2022 Brooklyn double slay\" width=\"9504\" height=\"373\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TNY-P9-20240512-084135.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7683367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Boodie was shot in the chest and right leg on Strauss St. in Brooklyn on May 12, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what sparked the shooting. Grant at the time was living around the corner from the victim.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place a half-block away from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/02\/09\/suspect-arrested-for-fatal-shootings-of-two-brooklyn-restaurant-workers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">double murder<\/a> at a West Indian restaurant on Strauss St. on Oct. 27, 2022. In that incident, workers Eyon Johnson and Damien White were shot. Sawandi Galara, 46, was\u00a0arrested for the killings\u00a0in February 2023 and charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Man, 24, fatally shot just down block from scene of 2022 Brooklyn double slay\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TNY-P1-20240512-083645.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7683365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Boodie was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital after he was shot in the chest and right leg on Strauss St. in Brooklyn on Sunday, May 12, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Cops released a photo of Grant Wednesday and asked anyone with information on his whereabouts to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD cops have identified a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a 24-year-old man outside the victim\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-21278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}