Two Atlantic City families are getting some answers now that charges have been filed in two old Atlantic County homicide cases.
One man, who was just 14 when he allegedly committed murder, remains wanted. Two others are in jail.
"When homicide investigations lay dormant and go unsolved for a period of time, survivors do not get closure, people lose faith in the criminal justice system and, even worse, killers mock the system and are free to potentially kill again," Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner said.
In one case, it appears a suspect did kill again.
Lorin Wright is charged with murder in the July 6, 2010, killing of Saleem Tolbert.
He was served his charges Oct. 4, in the Atlantic County Justice Facility, where he has been since 2017, when he was arrested in the Mother's Day killing of local rapper Keith Cundiff Jr.
"My family has been in the dark and today we shed light," said Tolbert's mother, Sheila Harvey, who applauded Tyner and his detectives.
"I'm overwhelmed," said Vernesta Green, who has waited 23 years to find out who killed her son.
Antojuan Huffin's son was just 2 years old when his father was gunned down during what investigators determined was a robbery in 1996.
He is now a 25-year-old man — five years older than his father when he was killed.
The men charged in the killing were just 14 and 17, at the time of the shooting May 27, 1996 inside Stanley Holmes' second village.
The older one is now 40 years old and has been arrested and processed through the juvenile system, due to his age at the time of the killing. Only his initials, T.C., have been released since he would now have to be waived up to adult charges before Tyner can release his name.
But because the other suspect is still wanted, he has been identified as Lamarc Rex, 37.
Tyner said former original investigators on these cases worked with his office to help in making the arrests.
His brother, Michael Graham, worked the Tolbert case when he was an Atlantic City police detective assigned to the Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit.
Graham now works as an agent under his brother.
Retired Capt. Jack Burke volunteered his time to help with the 1996 case that he was the original investigator on, Tyner said.
Burke was the person Tyner said told him that NIM on old homicide cases mostly dealing with Atlantic City meant "non-important murder."
BreakingAC later confirmed through an Open Public Records Act request and from Graham that those files never existed.
When asked if he told Tyner that's what NIM stood for, Burke replied: "I never said that."
