Comic Brandon ‘Boogie B’ Montrell recognized as man slain exterior New Orleans grocery retailer

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The 43-year-old man shot to dying Friday (Dec. 23) outside a Warehouse District grocery store was recognized by household and an legal professional Saturday as comic Brandon “Boogie B” Montrell.

Information of Montrell’s dying unfold extensively throughout social media on Friday evening, although New Orleans police and the Orleans Parish Coroner’s workplace nonetheless had not revealed the sufferer’s identification as of Saturday afternoon. Montrell was a well-liked character on TikTok and Instagram for his entertaining “Hood Historical past” collection of movies through which he lent a humorous spin to historic places, occasions and individuals all through New Orleans.

A cousin of Montrell’s instructed Fox 8 that the comic had been residing in Los Angeles whereas pursuing his leisure profession, however had returned to his hometown this week to spend Christmas along with his mom and grandmother in Slidell.

New Orleans police mentioned Friday that the person struck and killed by gunfire didn’t seem like the meant goal of two unidentified shooting suspects, one of whom fled the scene in a gray or silver sedan. The sufferer was fatally shot whereas inside a automobile parked on the Rouses grocery retailer at 701 Baronne St. round 4:07 p.m.

“My son was not simply the sufferer of a stray bullet,” Montrell’s mom Sherilyn Worth mentioned Saturday in an announcement launched by household legal professional Juan LaFonta.

“He’s the sufferer of many years of neglect which have left New Orleans’ youth with no hope for a future and with no actual concern of penalties. It’s previous time for leaders in our metropolis and throughout to do their jobs. It issues who the president is, who the governor is, and who the mayor is. Leaders create alternatives – together with the chance to stay in peace with out concern of random violence.”

Montrell was born in New Orleans however spent a part of his childhood in Tampa earlier than returning to Louisiana, the assertion mentioned. Montrell graduated Bonnabel Excessive Faculty and attended Delgado Group Faculty.

“When crime and violence in New Orleans turned worrisome, Montrell relocated to Washington D.C. and have become a comic,” the assertion mentioned.

Montrell is believed to have been getting Christmas groceries for his grandmother when he was killed, caught within the crossfire of two gunmen taking pictures at one another within the parking zone. He had deliberate to attend a pal’s comedy present at Harrah’s New Orleans later Friday night, LaFonta mentioned.

“He was a extremely good man,” LaFonta mentioned. “At all times pushing himself ahead. By no means concerned with something detrimental.

“Of us want to know that what results in horrors like this isn’t greed, it isn’t medicine, and it isn’t violent tendencies. It’s the failure of our metropolis’s leaders to offer correct and even minimal assist for households and youth.”

LaFonta mentioned Montrell’s mom was “offended” over her son’s dying and never but prepared to talk publicly.

“She’s offended,” he mentioned, “however not in a ‘road justice’ type of approach. She’s extra offended that there’s no management on this metropolis to forestall issues like this and no assist for these children doing these sorts of issues.”

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