Detectives are continuing to investigate the 36-year-old killing of a Galloway Township man, acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Cary Shill said Tuesday.Etrul Barnett, 79, was found fatally shot March 14, 1985, in his home in the township’s South Egg Harbor section.It is a cooperative investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office and Galloway police, Shill said.“Investigators at the … Read more
An Egg Harbor City man is in jail 25 years after he allegedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl while she slept.Brian Lee Avis, 59, is charged with aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, endangering the welfare of a child and burglary.Avis allegedly broke into the girl’s Brigantine home July 19, 1996, and sexually assaulted her.The … Read more
Dawn Register has never given up finding out who killed her mother nearly two decades ago.“I want justice for her,” Register said Friday, the day after making 19 years since her mother was found dead in Hamilton Township.“I don’t believe my mother’s soul has been at peace yet,” she said. “And she deserves peace. She … Read more
(Editor’s note: This story first ran Jan. 13, 2018. It is being re-republished on the anniversary of Uthman Griffin’s killing, which remains unsolved.) Muhammad Griffin never got to mourn his younger brother.He was in prison when Uthman Griffin was gunned down Jan. 13, 2012, as he ran from his killer toward Schoolhouse Apartments in Atlantic … Read more
An Atlantic City man recently charged in a decades old killing is in jail. But not for murder. Lamarc Rex, 37, was arrested early Dec. 14, after an Atlantic City police officer pulled him over on what he believed was still an active murder warrant in the May 27, 1996,killing of Antojuan Huffin. A loaded … Read more