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Atlantic City, New Jersey
1600 Absecon Blvd
Date Jan. 4, 2019
Killed 1
Injured 1

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Philadelphia man charged in fatal Atlantic City shooting held for court
Normalized · 2019-01-11T17:47:00-0500
A Philadelphia man charged in a fatal Atlantic City shooting was held for court in Mays Landing. Authorities allege he killed Ky’Lee Haynes at the Sunset Inn, was later linked to another shooting-related incident the same morning, and faces murder, robbery and weapons charges.
MAYS LANDING — The Philadelphia man charged in Atlantic City’s second fatal shooting of 2019 was held for court Wednesday. According to court records, the defendant was charged with robbery and murder in the killing of Ky’Lee Haynes, 20, of Atlantic City, and was remanded to the Atlantic County jail after a first appearance before a Superior Court judge. He also was charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, and unlawful possession and use of a handgun in connection with the killing and another shooting incident that occurred during the early morning hours of Jan. 3. At about 4 a.m., police responded to a 911 call about a man shot at the Sunset Inn on Absecon Boulevard. Haynes was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus, where he was pronounced dead. According to an affidavit of probable cause, multiple people inside the room where Haynes was staying said a man forced his way in while brandishing a weapon and demanding money, accusing the room’s occupants of robbing him and saying he was a cab driver. The man then pointed the gun at the people in the room and fired one round, striking Haynes. A single spent shell casing was found at the scene. The affidavit says the shooter ordered the people in the room to sit together and demanded money, but then searched their cellphones and wallets, taking only a small amount of cash from one occupant. Almost two hours later, police responded to Popeyes on Atlantic Avenue for a report of a robbery in which a man matching the shooter’s description waved a handgun while ordering food. Two witnesses from the Sunset Inn later identified Haynes’ shooter in a photo taken from restaurant surveillance footage. Later that morning, at about 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 3, police responded to an alert from the city’s gunshot-audio detection system near North Florida Avenue and found the defendant with a Jericho .40-caliber handgun, according to the affidavit. Members of the Atlantic City police SWAT team arrested him. About an hour later, a man walked into AtlantiCare with a single gunshot wound to the leg and identified the same defendant as the shooter, according to the affidavit. The name of that second victim had not been released. The defendant was scheduled for a pre-indictment conference in Atlantic County Superior Court on Feb. 11. Haynes’ killing was described as the second fatal shooting in Atlantic City that year.
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