Woman slain in Atlantic City aimed to spread positivity

Carley Elbert wanted to spread positivity.

The Sewell woman often posted videos talking about the struggles of life, the power of God and her belief in art as an escape.

“When I post these little talking videos, it’s because I’ve come to a realization of something and I want to spread it out there,” she said in a video posted last month. “When God comes into your heart and you know him, you can really change. I did.”

But the 32-year-old woman’s voice was silenced early Monday morning in a horrific attack that left her dead and a friend critically wounded.

Police were called to the jetty off North Maine Avenue in Atlantic City for two women shot.

Elbert was pronounced dead at the scene. Her friend, 29-year-old Kamille Stewart of Pleasantville, was alive with multiple wounds.

Both women appeared to have been shot in the head.

Gregg Page, 34, of Philadelphia, pulled the trigger, according to charges filed against him by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office.

Video allegedly shows Page picked up by two brothers, Ryan and Ramir Schenck, who drove him back to Philadelphia.

A ping on Elbert’s phone would lead to the alleged killer’s location, Elbert’s mother told 6ABC, holding up the phone to show the address in the 6100 block of Mulberry Street in Northeast Philadelphia. 

All three men are jailed awaiting extradition to Atlantic County.

A GoFundMe has been set up to help the woman’s mother, Nancy, who just went through major abdominal cancer surgery, her niece Tracy Murray writes in the fundraiser.

Nancy Elbert also lost her son. Now, her daughter was taken in an unexplained act of violence.

“Nancy has a heart of gold and would do anything for anyone and has done such for family and friends and even strangers over the years when she was fortunate enough,” Murray writes. “There is nothing that could ever ease the pain of losing both of your children, your family home, and having to rebuild.”

“If any of you could find it in your heart to help in some way, we as a family would be eternally grateful for my Aunt Nancy,” she continued.

Murray also describes her slain cousin who “did anything she could to bring family together.”

“I’m a survivor,” Carley Elbert said in a TikTok posted in November, after making it through a long-term illness that she said had a 1 percent survival rate.

“No hospital saved my life,” she says in the video. “I saved my life. God saved it.”