An Atlantic City man who admitted he didn’t stop for police after fleeing the shooting at a high school football game was sentenced to six years in prison Monday.
Shahid Dixon, 28, must serve at least three years before he is eligible for parole.
Dixon was not charged in the Pleasantville High School football game shooting that killed a 10-year-old boy and wounded two other.
But when he and three men fled inside a car in the rush following the gunfire, he refused to stop for police, Dixon admitted.
As they drove, Tyrell Dorn, threw a gun out the window.
Dorn pleaded guilty to the gun charge, and was sentenced to seven years in prison Aug. 20.
With Dorn and Dixon sentenced, the state has dropped charges against the other two men who were in the car.
Vance Golden and Michael Mack spent eight months in the Atlantic County Justice Facility on the charges. They have now been cleared.
Mack had insisted from the beginning that he didn’t even come to the game with the three other men, but grabbed a ride with them when he couldn’t find his brother in the confusion after the shooting.
Despite information from the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office and several media outlets saying that the four men’s charges were “in connection with” that shooting, none was even charged in that case.
Prosecutor Damon Tyner did not respond to requests for comment.
Another media outlet recently reported the plea as being sentenced "For charges related to the November fatal shooting of 10-year-old Micah Tennant during a Pleasantville High School football game."
That is inaccurrate.
Dixon was said to have talked to accused killer Alvin Wyatt via FaceTime from the game to let him know the alleged target, Ibn Abdullah, was at the game.
But, “the state’s proofs were not sufficient to implicate this defendant in that event,” Superior Court Judge Bernard DeLury said during Dixon’s sentencing.
Dixon had been on Recovery Court for about 3½ years after a significant drug history that included juvenile arrests, according to information presented at the sentencing.
Defense attorney Jim Grimley noted that Dorn had completed the treatment part. He was unsuccessful in trying to get his client back into the Recovery Court program.
“I’m sorry I failed drug court,” Dixon told the judge. “I failed myself and I failed my family.”
The murder case against Wyatt continues. He remains jailed.
