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.
Thanks; it is a shame, because here in NJ we have mountains, farms, and the ocean just a short drive apart. Great potential...
With the same 2nd amendment rights and protections as the citizens of the former DDR and the second worst tax burden of all the states (according to forbes) - only NY is worse
“Thanks; it is a shame, because here in NJ we have mountains, farms, and the ocean just a short drive apart. Great potential...”
And nestled nearby are the vacation paradises of Newark, Camden, etc.
Well he can only do it with federal prisoners, but yeah, he can still do an awful lot of harm in the next few months. Fortunately, state and local prisons are beyond his reach.... so far.
Yes, people from PA, NY, CT, and beyond have options now that did not exist 20-30 years ago, and Atlantic City casino business is suffering. Libs try to blame Trump for casino business issues in Atlantic City, which is ridiculous. No matter who owned the casinos there, they were going to be in big trouble as more and more casinos opened around their key target markets.
All true; NJ has been ruined...
No, Point Pleasant and Wildwood are nice...
I don’t think anybody in NJ believes Trump is to blame; they can see our economy continue to deteriorate, and they know THEY haven’t been to a casino lately...
Directly attributable to liberals who having ruined NJ then move on to other states like Florida to so the same thing there.
It has only been done with federal prisoners in the past. There is no such limitation in the Constitution.
A lot are still here; we have a huge government worker caste that leaves when they retire (due to the costs they themselves drove up). Our capital is on the Delaware River, and many of the state employees live across the river in (lower cost) Pennsylvania...
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