Jahlil Boston
An Egg Harbor City pleaded guilty Friday in a fatal 2023 shooting on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
He gave a recorded interview admitting that he killed Eric Wynn, according to information released at his detention hearing shortly after the killing.
The defendant later claimed he did not kill Wynn, and that he did not make those admissions.
But Boston now has admitted to the killing, which was captured on surveillance.
He faces a 28-year sentence under the plea agreement. He would have serve at least 85 percent, or about 23 years and 10 months, before he is eligible for parole. He will have credit for nearly two years when he is sentenced March 12.
A month earlier, he had a simple assault case out of Hammonton that appears to have stayed at the municipal level, court records show.
Boston had another simple assault and criminal mischief charge out of Hammonton in September, three months after he was put on probation.
That case was transferred to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office a month later, according to the municipal court record.
"His probation was not violated for these pending charges, and I just wonder why it was not," Judge Patricia Wild said at Boston's detention hearing in 2023.
Boston remains in the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
