Nearly 3 Years After Harlem Hotel Murder, Suspect Is Arrested: NYPD

HARLEM, NY — Nearly three years after a man was gunned down inside a Harlem hotel on New Year's Eve, a suspect in the murder has been arrested, police announced Thursday.

Clifton Thomas, a 27-year-old East Harlem resident, is accused of fatally shooting Richard Hall inside the New Ebony Hotel on Dec. 31, 2019, police said.

Hall, 27, was found with multiple gunshot wounds just after 11 p.m. that night inside the hotel, on the corner of West 112th Street and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard, police said.

Hall lived just a few blocks away on West 118th Street, but had rented a room at the hotel, which offers low-income rentals, the Daily News reported at the time.

Police had released images of the suspect the following day, saying he had been seen leaving the building after the shooting, but the case apparently went unsolved for more than two years afterward.

Thomas, who was arrested late Wednesday, has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, police say.

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