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According to Atlantic County Prosecutors Office, a Barnegat man admitted to shooting another man in the leg and then concealing the pistol to avoid being taken into custody.
27-year-old Louis Stokes entered a guilty plea to three charges: third-degree impeding apprehension, second-degree aggravated assault, and second-degree pistol possession with intent to do criminal acts.
On October 14, 2022, just before midnight, police from Atlantic City went to Sewell Avenue and discovered a man who had been shot once in the leg, according to officials.
Eight spent 9mm round casings were discovered at the crime scene, which was located close by near Pennsylvania and Adriatic Avenues, according to authorities.
According to authorities, surveillance footage revealed that a group of men had been in the vicinity of the shooting before making their way into a house together.
Three pistols were discovered inside that residence, authorities claimed, one of which was a stolen 9mm that was subsequently determined by the ballistics laboratory to have been used to shoot the victim.
Authorities said that this weapon was discovered after it was concealed on a nearby outside ledge outside a second-floor window. Officials stated that Stokes was recognized as the gunman by an eyewitness and that his DNA was found on two of the weapons.
Officials said that Stokes admitted shooting the victim with the weapon he had hidden to thwart his capture while making his guilty plea under oath.
Stokes asked to be released from the Atlantic County Justice Facility pending his sentencing after entering a guilty plea. According to officials, the State objected to this plea, and the Court decided that Stokes should stay behind bars.
His sentencing is scheduled for September 2024, and it is anticipated that he will receive a five years total in New Jersey State Prison, with an 85 percent parole ineligibility period based on the Graves Act and the No Early Release Act. Stokes will have three years of rigorous parole supervision following his release from prison.
