A dozen inmates were charged in a brutal beating inside the Atlantic County Justice Facility this summer.
One has since been cleared. More could be charged as the investigation continues.
The unnamed victim was left unconscious and bleeding profusely with head trauma, BreakingAC has learned.
The attack happened June 28, in G-right Pod, according to the affidavit of probable cause obtained by BreakingAC.
Video from closed-circuit television cameras in the jail were used to investigate the attack.
The men are seen hitting and kicking the victim while he is on the ground, the affidavit states. The victim's name was redacted. He was identified only as D.H. in court.
Trevin Allen, Majid Harris, Develin Grant and Hamid Webb are seen "stomping the victim's head several times, while he appears to lay unconscious on the ground," the affidavit states.
Gerone Foster and Yahsin Cheeks are shown "striking the victim multiple times with a chair."
The men refused to come down for their first appearance for central judicial processing last week, a corrections officer told the judge. Several have detention hearings plan, although they all are being held on other charges.
BreakingAC previously reported on charges involving most of the men.
At least two are in the jail on murder charges, with another charged in a drug-induced death. Several have pending gun charges.
Laquan Rex, 31, of Egg Harbor City, was the only person who was not jailed at the time of the charges. He was ultimately arrested, but has since been cleared.
The state dropped the charges against him after reviewing the video and finding he was not involved, Assistant Prosecutor Deirdre Laws told a judge after a planned detention hearing was canceled.
It is the second time Rex was released following charges being dropped by the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
He had faced charges related to the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old in Atlantic City. But Rex's co-defendant later pleaded guilty, and claimed his two co-defendants did not know his plan to shoot the victim, BreakingAC learned during the reporting of the new charges.
Clockwise from top left: Develin Grant, Gerone Fisher, Yahsin Cheeks, Tyquan McClarin-Lamar, Laquan Rex, Trevin Allen, George Harrell and George Franco. The charges against Rex were dropped. The remaining 11 men face second-degree charges of aggravated assault and conspiracy. No motive was given for the attack.
Others involved remain unidentified, according to the affidavit.
Those charged are:
Majid Harris, 23, of Bridgeton, has been jailed since Dec. 7, in relation to an armed robbery from November, court records show. His pending charges include possession of a weapon by a certain person. He previously served a three-year sentence in a juvenile facility after pleading guilty as an adult to third-degree robbery when he was 17.
Develin Grant, 20, of Mays Landing, and Hamid Webb, 23, of Egg Harbor Township, have both been jailed since summer 2023, after they and four others — including three minors — allegedly used a fake advertisement on Facebook Marketplace to lure victims that were robbed at gunpoint.
Gerone Foster, 27, of Egg Harbor Township, has been jailed since Dec. 28. He has nine pending charges including aggravated assault and weapons offenses. He previously was arrested in connection with a 2018 Atlantic City armed home invasion. He previously served five years in prison.
Yahsin Cheeks, 31, of Atlantic City, has been jailed since June 3, 2023, after he was charged in a 2022 shooting that wounded a man.
Tyquan McClarin-Lamar, 29, of Atlantic City, has been jailed since May 3, 2021, and is charged in two separate shootings in Atlantic City that year. He was first arrested in the shooting of a woman that April. Once arrested, further investigation linked him to the shooting of a man a month earlier.
George Franco, 27, of Pleasantville, was arrested July 19, 2023, in the drug-induced death of a 53-year-old Egg Harbor Township man.
George Harrell, 34, of Atlantic City, is charged in a deadly robbery from June 5, 2022, in which a 65-year-old man was fatally stabbed. Harrell was arrested about three months later in Philadelphia, and has been in Atlantic County's jail since Dec. 7, 2022.
Jalil Powell, 29, of Atlantic City, was arrested April 23, on charges including terroristic threats and theft. He previously was sentenced to three years in prison in a case of aggravated assault on a domestic violence victim, court records show.
Jeomi Smith, 25, of Atlantic City, was arrested Oct. 13, 2023, on a warrant in an eluding case related to a crash that injured a pedestrian in Bass River Township, court records show. At the time of his arrest, he was additionally charged on a summons related to drug crimes.
Trevin Allen, 37, of Atlantic City, was arrested May 21, on drug and weapons offenses, court records show. He previously served a 10-year sentence with five years of parole ineligibility for a certain person not to possess a weapon case out of Egg Harbor City in 2017, according to court records.
(NOTE: This story was updated to include charges being dropped against Laquan Rex.)
