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A.C. resident guns down 2 alleged home invaders
pressofatlanticcity.com ^ | January 15, 2002 | By BRIDGET MURPHY

Posted on 01/17/2002 4:10:37 AM PST by tberry

January 15, 2002

A.C. resident guns down 2 alleged home invaders

By BRIDGET MURPHY Staff Writer, (609) 272-7257, E-Mail

ATLANTIC CITY - One intruder was dead and one was clinging to life Monday after a North Indiana Avenue resident warded off a home invasion by firing his own weapon at two masked men who pushed their way into his apartment armed with guns.

The incident happened around 2 a.m. at the back door of 5011/2 North Indiana Ave., an apartment shared by Dennis Burleigh, 54, and his girlfriend, Carol Kelly, authorities said.

Burleigh went to the back door with his handgun after becoming suspicious when someone knocked and asked to come in, according to authorities.

When Burleigh opened the door for a man he knew, the masked intruders, identified as Raymond K. Cox and Massai Burgess, pushed their way in, and Burleigh opened fire, authorities said.

No charges had been filed by Monday evening, and Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey S. Blitz said the investigation was continuing.

Cox was shot in the lower back, and Burgess was shot in the mouth.

The man who knocked on the door, whom authorities would not identify, escaped without injury.

Burleigh, the resident, suffered a gunshot wound to his left hand and was treated and released from Atlantic City Medical Center, City Division.

Authorities said police found Cox lying dead outside the back door with a loaded sawed-off shotgun under him. Cox, 36, lived at 910A Mediterranean Avenue and also used the name Rashid Abdullah.

Authorities said he was found wearing a bandana over his face, and a second gun, a loaded .9mm semi-automatic handgun, was on the ground within his reach.

Cox died from a single gunshot wound to lower part of his back, according to an autopsy performed by Atlantic County Medical Examiner Dr. Eliot Gross.

Authorities said Burgess, 26, of 201B N. New York Ave., who also goes by the name "Sahid," was in critical condition Monday evening at the ACMC, City Division.

He fled from the scene in his car after he was shot and a friend later took him to Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, where authorities found him and later transferred him to ACMC.

Blitz would not comment on what the intruders may have been looking for inside the apartment. When asked if Burleigh's gun was licensed, the prosecutor said that by law individuals do not need permits to keep guns inside their residences.

Robert Mason Sr., a retired postal worker and community activist who lives on Hummock Avenue one house away from the back door of Burleigh's apartment, was sleeping when gunfire woke him up.

"I heard four shots," he said Monday, standing near his front fence, where police found a bloody face mask with a hole in it.

A trail of blood stretched from the back yard where the shooting happened, which is located on Hummock Avenue, to almost a block away, near the corner of Robinson Avenue.

Mason said he stayed inside his house until he saw and heard authorities arrive at the scene.

Police Officers Andrea Perry and Paul Petigna arrived after Kelly, Burleigh's girlfriend, called 911, authorities said.

The North Indiana house is a two-story brick attached dwelling that's owned by city resident Jacqueline Sharpe. The dwelling where the shooting occurred is a three-bedroom duplex. On the other side, at 501 N. Indiana Ave., there's another apartment and a deli.

"I just feel bad that someone's dead," Sharpe said Monday, when reached at her home. "I have no idea what went wrong."

Hummock Avenue resident Sherry Beckam said drug activity has been a problem near the deli in the past.

She peeped out her door at the police activity Monday morning, but didn't go outside.

"That's scary," she said about the slaying.

The crime occurred less than two months after a 15-year-old neighborhood girl was abducted a half-block away at Hummock and Robinson avenues after getting off a school bus.

She was taken out of the city by four male suspects who raped her before dumping her back in the resort.

Monday's incident happened just a short distance from the Atlantic City Convention Center, where thousands of conventioneers later flooded into the area for a refrigeration and heating expo that was billed as the city's largest convention since the 1964 Democratic National Convention.


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"When asked if Burleigh's gun was licensed, the prosecutor said that by law individuals do not need permits to keep guns inside their residences"
1 posted on 01/17/2002 4:10:38 AM PST by tberry
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Bang
2 posted on 01/17/2002 4:16:21 AM PST by tberry
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I just love a happy ending!
3 posted on 01/17/2002 4:20:58 AM PST by Destructor
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It's really nice to hear of people successfully defending themselves when thugs threaten them. There's at least one less bad guy on the streets today, so AC is a bit safer.
4 posted on 01/17/2002 4:22:27 AM PST by basil
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And that's a New Jersey prosecuter saying that! Amazing!
5 posted on 01/17/2002 4:23:50 AM PST by bvw
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Bump
6 posted on 01/17/2002 4:24:27 AM PST by csvset
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7 posted on 01/17/2002 4:25:53 AM PST by Joe Brower
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Rashid Abdullah and Sahid...another piece of evidence for the use of racial profiling or at least name profiling.
8 posted on 01/17/2002 4:31:46 AM PST by RWG
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and of course no one need ask if color was part of this invasion. The only question I have, was it black on black, or black on white? Could it have been a religious invasion? With names like that of the deceased, and the injured, there would appear to be some black muslim issue.
9 posted on 01/17/2002 4:59:54 AM PST by wita
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Arabic/Islamic named criminals operating in New Jersey...
Where I have I heard that before?
10 posted on 01/17/2002 5:03:21 AM PST by HiJinx
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"I just feel bad that someone's dead," Sharpe said Monday, when reached at her home. "I have no idea what went wrong."

That two perps survived the encounter?

11 posted on 01/17/2002 5:15:55 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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Rashid Abdullah and Sahid... The article points out that these are "assumed" names. The perps original names are Cox and Burgess. I don't think they are Arabs...

AB

12 posted on 01/17/2002 5:26:25 AM PST by ArrogantBustard
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Burgess: Go To Jail. Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200. Too bad there's no proper spot for where "Rashid Abdullah's" going.
13 posted on 01/17/2002 5:30:06 AM PST by NittanyLion
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Rashid Abdullah and Sahid...another piece of evidence for the use of racial profiling or at least name profiling.

They aren't Arabs. They are blacks.

14 posted on 01/17/2002 5:50:34 AM PST by sneakypete
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Authorities said police found Cox lying dead outside the back door with a loaded sawed-off shotgun under him. Cox...also used the name Rashid Abdullah.

Yeah, yet another peaceful practioner of Islam. Sure hate to be in his shoes right about now!

15 posted on 01/17/2002 5:53:24 AM PST by FormerLib
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a loaded .9mm semi-automatic handgun

... stolen from a "SWAT Barbie" doll.

16 posted on 01/17/2002 5:56:07 AM PST by coloradan
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"When asked if Burleigh's gun was licensed,

I'd like to know who asked this silly question. I'm sure it was some idiot "reporter".

18 posted on 01/17/2002 5:58:11 AM PST by FreePaul
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More than likely, they're Black converts that probably 'embraced' Islam on a previous trip through the prison system.
19 posted on 01/17/2002 5:59:34 AM PST by constitutiongirl
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