Kalief Lyons' most recent state prison mugshot.
A Galloway Township man accused of killing a man while free awaiting sentencing in a gun case has been indicted for murder.
Kalief Lyons, 35, is currently in the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, awaiting assignment for where he will serve his 10-year sentence in the previous gun charge.
Lyons was in that case on May 28, less than three weeks after he allegedly gunned down a Pleasantville man inside a residence.
Baseem Taliaferro, 38, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest inside 9 W. Pleasant Ave., just after 11 p.m. May 9.
Lyons was on the street awaiting sentencing, after pleaded guilty March 5, in connection to brandishing a handgun Nov. 30, 2022, in Galloway Township.
He was re-arrested 2½ hours after Taliaferro's killing.
Lyons had a 9mm handgun and a large quantity of drugs, according to the charges. He also had on the same clothing seen in surveillance video of the suspect going to and coming from the homicide scene.
Ballistic evidence matched the gun to the one used to kill Taliaferro.
Lyons and several others got into an argument about 20 minutes before the shooting, a witness told investigators.
Lyons left the area after the argument, but surveillance captured him walking back toward the rear of 9 W. Pleasant Ave. wearing a ski mask, the state alleges.
Lyons was seen walking away about two minutes later — after the shooting — without the mask, according to the Prosecutor's Office.
A ShotSpotter audio gunshot-detection alert brought police to the shooting scene.
The investigation is ongoing with the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit along with the Pleasantville Police Department.
