Atlantic City man ordered held in deadly robbery

An Atlantic City murder suspect captured in Philadelphia will stay in jail.

George Harrell, 32, is accused of fatally stabbing Dwight Hutchinson during a robbery June 5.

The 65-year-old victim was found dead on stairs in the first block of North Kentucky Avenue at about 2:20 p.m.

The stabbing was captured on surveillance video, Assistant Prosecutor Elizabeth White told the judge.

It’s shows the suspect leaning over the victim and reaching toward him and then Hutchinson slumps onto the stairs where he was found, White said. The suspect then walks behind a parked school bus, where he briefly pauses. That is where Hutchinson’s discarded wallet was later found.

Harrell was identified from a still shot.

But defense attorney Kevin Moses argued that the video of the stabbing is “incredibly far away … no one could have recognized him.”

Instead, he said the identification was of the man who walked into the Cedar Market.

White countered that the video surveillance tracked Harrell to that market, wearing the same clothes as the person who attacked Hutchinson. Harrell was identified by a witness who knows him.

Harrell was charged a week after the attack, but that information was not released until after his arrest at the end of August.

He had four pending charges at the time of the attack, including three drug offenses and a shoplifting charge.

Harrell was extradited from Philadelphia, and has been in the Atlantic County Justice Facility since Dec. 7. He will now remain there.