Slay suspect had prowled B’klyn nabe
A MAN BUSTED for gunning down a Brooklyn teen five days before Christmas showed up in his victim’s neighborhood to look for him twice before the fatal clash, heartbroken family members said Saturday.
Donovan Boomer, 25, and several other men went looking for Jose Osoria (photo) in Williamsburg one month before the fatal Dec. 20 shooting on Havemeyer St., the relatives said. They showed up again two weeks before the killing, they added.
On the night of the murder, Osoria, 19, was playing video games at a friend’s home when another pal called just after midnight and said someone was looking for them outside.
When the teen and his buddy stepped outdoors, Boomer, of Queens, opened fire, hitting them both.
“All Jose’s friends said that he didn’t know (Boomer) and the guy all of a sudden pulls a gun and goes boom, boom, boom!” Osoria’s uncle Jose Soto, 52, said.
Osoria was hit in the leg and back. He was taken to Woodhull Medical Center, where he died.
His friend, Julio, 20, was shot in the shoulder and survived.
A motive for the killing was not immediately disclosed by police.
Detectives arrested Boomer on Friday, and charged him with murder, attempted murder, assault and weapons possession. Osoria’s friends told his family that no one knew who Boomer was — but that they had seen him in the neighborhood two weeks earlier.
When Boomer fired his gun, he called Osoria’s name, the friends said.
Osoria’s friends and relatives are puzzled as to why Boomer and his companions looked for him in the weeks before the killing.
“We want to know why these kids were coming to him,” Soto said. “Something happened and nobody told us.”
Family members said Osoria worked in construction and was the proud father of a 7-month-old girl.
He and his girlfriend, Alyssa Lopez, 21, were planning to finish up their Christmas shopping for little Ariana when he died.
“All I kept thinking about was my daughter, how she has to grow up without her father,” Lopez said.