An Atlantic City teen charged with shooting shooting his cabdriver in broad daylight in November.
Three days earlier, the driver said he was called to the same location and picked up the same man and drove him to the laundromat at 1741 Baltic Ave., according to the affidavit of probable cause obtained by BreakingAC.
Surveillance video taken from the laundromat backs up that claim, the affidavit states.
The 33-year-old victim, which the affidavit identifies only as K.D., was shot in the left side hip area, where the bullet lodged, requiring surgery.
The taxi, a Dodge Grand Caravan, was in the 200 block of North Kentucky Avenue with blood spatter, two cell phones, a bottle of Patron and a handgun with a 9mm spent shell casing caught in the gun, a malfunction called a “stovepipe,” the affidavit states.
Lampkin’s grandmother arrived at the scene, according to the affidavit. When she called the number she had for him her phone, “the phones left in the cab after the shooting both rang.”
Amir Lampkin was arrested Dec. 8, and is in the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
During a detention hearing this week, Lampkin’s attorney told the judge that there was another man who shot the cabdriver.
That unknown man came to the back of the cab, opened the door and shot, Lampkin said, according to attorney Durann Neil.
The judge told Neil that if more information comes out, he could reopen the motion to detain him.
Until then, Lampkin has been ordered held as his case goes through the courts.
