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Atlantic City man indicted in fatal stoning

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch4UiBBlifA&t=11s A homeless man accused of stoning a man to death on New Year's Eve and then putting his body into a trash can in Atlantic City was indicted this week. Thomas Green — known as "Partner" — was arrested hours after Ricky Ward's body was found by a resident putting out the trash outside a home on the 1200 block of Adriatic Avenue. Ward, 52, was hit in the head multiple times with stones, according to the charges. "I'm a King Green ... with the United Nations," he told Judge Bernard DeLury during his first appearance in January. He asked where the man "who got hit with the stones" was, calling the victim Holyfield. Green, 64, has a violent record that seemed to have abruptly stopped more than a quarter-century ago. In 1977, he was sent to prison on second-degree murder, although there are no details in the current files at the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office or in the courthouses records system. He served less than 10 years before getting paroled Nov. 26, 1985, state Department of Corrections records show. Less than a year-and-a-half later, he was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated assault. He was released June 10, 1990, after maxing out on that sentence. Green remains in the Atlantic County Justice Facility on $1 million full cash bail. His arrest was under the old bail guidelines. https://breakingac.com/body-found-in-atlantic-city/
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Lynda Cohen

BreakingAC founder who previously worked in newspapers for more than two decades. She is an NJPA award-winner and was a Stories of Atlantic City fellow.

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