26 year old Ibn Demps of Atlantic City has pleaded
guilty on two separate indictments to aggravated assault and certain persons not to possess weapons. Demps is expected to be sentenced to an aggregate term of eight years in New Jersey State Prison.
On September 21, 2022, members of the Atlantic City Police
Department responded to a shooting in the area of 154 N. South Carolina Avenue. Upon arrival,
police located a gunshot victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. A review of
surveillance video led police to identify Ibn Demps as the shooter. Surveillance video showed
Demps playing dice with a group of men in the courtyard area of a housing complex before pulling
out a handgun and shooting the victim at near point-blank range in the stomach area. Demps
was apprehended by police on December 9, 2022.