The target of a deadly shooting at a high school football game was arrested Thursday for attempted murder.
Micah "Dew" Tennant was just 10 years old when he was caught in the crossfire while watching the game from the stands at Pleasantville High.
The Atlantic City boy died days later without regaining consciousness. Alvin Wyatt is jailed on a murder charge.
But it was Ibn Abdullah who was Wyatt's actual target, according to authorities.
Abdullah was shot several times, but survived and is in a wheelchair.
He also was given a weapons charge when he was found with a gun by those tending to him after he was shot.
Now, Abdullah is charged with attempted murder in an apparent shootout between him and Wyatt that happened less than three weeks before the tragedy at the game.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested Abdullah on Thursday in Bucks County, Pa., BreakingAC has learned. He has been wanted for more than a week.
Atlantic City police responded to a ShotSpotter alert just after 10 p.m. Oct. 28, 2019, in the area of Hummock and Ohio avenues. An investigation found that Abdullah shot at Wyatt multiple times.
Abdullah, now 29, is charged with six counts, including attempted murder and aggravated assault.
That beef is what seems to have brought Wyatt to the football game that fall night.
Shahid Dixon told investigators he was at the game FaceTiming with Wyatt, when he told him that Abdullah was there.
Wyatt could have waited until his target was alone, but instead “pointed his gun and fired away,” Chief Assistant Prosecutor Seth Levy said at Wyatt's detention hearing.
“The fact he would go to a football game and just randomly point his gun and shoot in the crowded stands” shows he’s a danger, Levy told the judge at the time.
Atlantic City police never released information on the Oct. 28. 2019 at the time. But three hours earlier, that same area was the scene of a deadly shooting that remains unsolved.
