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November 2, 2024

70-year prison term for shooting death of boy

MAYS LANDING – Alvin Wyatt, 35, of Atlantic City, NJ, was sentenced Monday  to an aggregate term of 70 years in state prison for shooting into a crowd at a Pleasantville football game, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring two others.

 The Honorable Donna M. Taylor, J.S.C., sentenced him to the term where he must serve at least 85 percent of the sentence before parole eligibility.

A jury convicted him in July of this year for murder, two counts of attempted murder, unlawful possession of a handgun, possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose, and certain persons not to possess firearms.

Wyatt was charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder after firing eight times into the bleachers at a crowded Pleasantville High School football game on November 15, 2019. One of the bullets struck a 10-year-old spectator, M.T., in the neck while he watched the game with his mother and sister. Multiple bystanders rendered aid to M.T. until first responders could transport him the nearest hospital. After numerous surgeries, M.T. succumbed to his injuries several days after the shooting. Wyatt’s gun fire also struck Ibn Abdullah, 31, three times and left him permanently confined to a wheelchair. The third victim, then 15-year-old C.G., was struck once in the arm by a bullet. Officers of the Pleasantville Police Department apprehended the defendant as he attempted to flee the scene.

The charges were the result of an investigation conducted by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit with assistance from the Pleasantville Police Department, the Atlantic City Police Department, the Absecon Police Department, and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

At trial, the State was represented by Chief Assistant Prosecutor Seth Levy and Assistant Prosecutor Daniel Davis.

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