“Everybody In That Building Knows What Happened To Her,” Anonymous Letter Tells Missing Woman's Mother

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Aliyah Boomer, lovingly called "Li Li" by her family and close friends, was a nursing student living with her mother in the Nostrand Houses on Batchelder Street in the Sheepshead Bay area in New York. On August 14, 2015, Aliyah and a friend attended a barbecue in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. She was supposed to go to a birthday celebration for her mother, Pastor Victoria Boomer-Harris, at a church in the area the following day, on Sunday, August 15, 2015.

“Sunday, I called her, and I didn’t get an answer,” Pastor Boomer-Harris told Pix 11.  
“So, we started the service, and Li Li still didn’t show up.”

According to the family, they learned that 27-year-old Aliyah and her friend had an argument, left the barbecue, and walked home together. They went to the friend's house at 444 Columbia Street of the Red Hook housing projects. According to the friend, once there, someone invited them to a second barbecue around 11:00 pm. Although her friend declined, Aliyah accepted and left shortly afterward, reports NAMUS.

444 Columbia Street in Brooklyn, New York, would be the last sighting of "Li Li." Aliyah never showed up at the second barbecue, reports NAMUS.

At 3:00 am on Sunday, August 15, 2015, her sister received a call from Aliyah, but she was asleep and did not answer the call from her sister. She got the message around 6:00 am when she awoke. Three days later, when she failed to show up for her sister's birthday party, her family reported Aliyah missing, reports the Charley Project. According to her family, Aliyah would not have left without warning.

"This is very heavy on my heart. Not knowing where your child is. Not knowing if she's eating, sleeping, dead or alive," Victoria Boomer-Harris told Brooklyn News 12.

Then in the fall of 2021, an anonymous letter arrived at the home of Pastor Boomer-Harris, postmarked from the Bronx. The letter claimed to be from someone who had an uncle who lived on the first floor of the building Aliyah vanished from in 2015. The uncle, now deceased, allegedly told this relative information about what happened to Aliyah, who he claimed was in apartment 2C, but hung out with a couple on the third floor.

The letter reads:

"Everybody in that building no [know] what happen to her. The people….sent her out on a drug run, I think they call it a ‘lick.' She never came back. My uncle said they no [know] what happen to your family member.”

“I was asking my nephew and girlfriend ‘What’s a lick?'” Pastor Boomer-Harris told PIX11 News.  “She said, ‘When they send people out to sell drugs and things don’t go right, and they don’t show up.'”

Some people speculate the letter could be a ruse to throw off investigators and the family. Since the disappearance of Aliyah, her mother, and family have experienced hardships. At the time of her 2022 interview with Pix 11, Pastor Boomer-Harris was battling cancer after the death of her mother, grandmother, and a sibling.

“My mother suffers from stress, depression, she’s a very Godly woman,” Aliyah's sister, Zulema Hunt, told Pix 11.

This family deserves answers and Aliyah deserves justice.

“Just finding out what happened, and who was involved,” Zulema told Pix 11.

Aliyah Boomer is 5'7" and weighed 120 pounds when she vanished. There is currently a $10,000 reward for any information being offered by Zulema, Pix 11 reports. If you have any information, please contact the New York Police Department at 212-694-7781.

There is a Facebook page dedicated to finding Aliyah:https://www.facebook.com/FINDALIYAH/