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.
Five Charged in Atlantic County Shooting
Hamilton Township, N.J. - A rolling shootout on the Atlantic City Expressway resulted in at least four males injured and one killed in a crime and investigation scene that stretched for miles. Five people are now charged after New Jersey State Police detectives and partners from other agencies worked through the night to piece together the evidence.
Just before 3:00 p.m. Monday, police dispatch received multiple calls reporting shots f...
Aha. Yoots.
Sure beats working at McDonalds.
More gun control laws and gun buy backs in NJ will certainly solve this problem.
Mexico comes to Atlantic City!
#TriggerControlMatters
Shaun Stukes is the father of Yashaun Stukes-Williams?
Like father, like son
Poor boys were just turning their lives around but had a relapse.
“....possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.”
“You mean this isn’t allowed? We were just having a little fun...”
I wonder what it really is?
0bama will pardon them all before he leaves office.
Holder’s peeps.
It’s things like this that make me glad I live on the west coast. New Jersey is a hell-hole, scary, crowded and run down. I’ve driven to Egg Harbor, I have some family buried there at a cemetery. Lots of scary things going on there.
A Daisy airgun
They were all starting college in just a matter of days!!!
Beyonce says they are innocent angels!!!
Mexico?
More like Mozambique. Civilized society was never meant for certain cretins.
I have a little bit of a dread that he will empty the prisons, or pardon all the black and Spanish prisoners. He can constitutionally do that and it would be the final nail in the American social coffin. It might also be a trigger for white men to begin to seriously fight back at the local level.
aspiring rappers all of whom had just turned their lives around and love their mothers no doubt
No one deserves to have that much firepower!
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