Posted on 08/30/2016 6:30:19 PM PDT by Coleus
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — It must have seemed like something out of the movies.
Three men from Atlantic County, one from Ocean County and a teenager were under arrest after a gun battle that left another man dead. The crime scene: A stretch of Atlantic City Expressway traversed by two fast-moving vehicles. Of the five arrested after the Monday violence, four suffered gunshot wounds and two remained hospitalized on Tuesday. The first reports of gunshots came in shorty before 3 p.m., police said. Callers reported moving cars exchanging fire in the eastbound lanes of the Atlantic City Expressway near Exit 12.
Soon afterward, troopers got a call for medical attention five miles east and one north, at mile marker 39 on the Garden State Parkway, police said. They found 22-year-old Rosemond Octavius of Egg Harbor dead in the passenger seat of a silver Nissan Maxima. The driver of the Maxima, 24-year-old Anthony Hicks of Mays Landing, had not been hurt, police said. Meanwhile, police were getting more 911 calls reporting a white Ford Expedition, peppered with bullet holes and filled with wounded men, at a Delilah Road Wawa in Egg Harbor Township, about three miles east of where callers reported the gun battle, police said.
"State police detectives and Egg Harbor Police canine officers traced the path of the Expedition back to a location near the Wawa where they found four weapons including three handguns and one AK-style assault rifle," according to a statement from state police. A third car, a black Dodge Ram, may also have been involved in the battle and continued east on the expressway to exit near Pleasantville, police said.
Police said the occupants of the Expedition were:
And that they are facing the following charges:
The adults are also each facing one count of first-degree employing a juvenile in a crime
Police said Hicks is facing a different set of charges:
Judge H. Robert Switzer set bail for each suspect at $250,000, police said.
"It is not yet clear from which vehicles the shots were fired that killed Octavius or injured the people in the Expedition, so the current charges reflect the early phase of this case," police said. "The investigation is still very active and updates will be supplied as new information becomes available." In the early stages of the investigation police officials said the shooting did not appear to be random. The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office also worked on the case, police said.
Mak-90? It’s the only thing close appearance-wise that’s legal in NJ, 10 round single stack magazine..
Something tells me these kids didn’t care though.
I wonder what it really is? >>
me too, they will say anything, if it has a long barrel; it’s an assault weapon
They were beginning to turn their vans around.
Poor boys were just turning their lives around but had a relapse. >>>
yea, they’re such good kids, I just can’t believe it.
I heard on the radio today when they were talking about all the clemency that 0bama signed off on that one of the criteria was that they be people of color.
I heard on the radio today when they were talking about all the clemency that 0bama signed off on that one of the criteria was that they be people of color.
Disarm likely democrat voters and gun crime abates instantly.
IIRC, he can only pardon Federal prisoners. State charges have to be done by the states individually.
BLM bunch sounding crickets.
South Jersey is primarily built around the casino economy, and as the Greater Depression has worsened here with each passing year casinos continue to close. The state is dying, and this is just a symptom of that; the revenue sources are drying up, and we’re degenerating into “The Road Warrior”...
Since a “fast moving” white Ford was involved it is a obvious case of White Race-ism.
Harvard bound, one and all...
Harvard bound, one and all... Can I get an idea of which one was going to be editor of the Law Review?
Trump’s fault.
Have we heard from their grandmothers yet? /s
“Aunts” (pronounced “awnts”)
I can't understand why people even gamble in Atlantic City. The casinos are too expensive. The times I visited, the casinos had $25 minimums to play a hand. Very few tables would open with a $15 minimum, and they would soon convert to $25. That's too expensive. I'm on the west coast, and can play in Nevada at $5 minimums a hand, and $3 at some cheaper casinos. Plus our Indian casinos in California often have $5 minimum tables. It's no wonder the casinos in Atlantic City shut down, hard to attract customers. The Boardwalk was interesting, but not enough to make me want to return as a tourist.
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AS I understand it (I haven’t been there for years), the tables start cheaper and go up as the night goes on (but if you started lower you can continue at that rate). More and more people don’t gamble in AC, for two reasons: 1) Far less people have money to gamble, and 2) there are better alternatives now that didn’t exist when the casinos opened. For me, living about a dozen miles west of Manhattan in northeastern NJ, the Connecticut casinos are roughly the same distance but in a much nicer area; now Pennsylvania has casinos a little more than an hour west of me, and they are also in better areas. As I understand it from friends who still go, parts of the boardwalk have become very unsafe; I’m sure crime has risen as casino revenues for the city/county/state have dropped.
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