6th Person Arrested In Deadly, Rolling N.J. Shootout: Cops

A sixth person has been busted after a rolling shootout on a New Jersey highway that left one dead.

Wilbert Demosthene, 25, of Pleasantville was arrested Tuesday after his blood was found in a pickup truck connected with the shooting that started on the Atlantic City Expressway, police said. He took himself to a hospital in Philadelphia with a bullet wound in the arm.

A total of five people were shot, and one person was killed, in the Aug. 29 shootout in Atlantic County, New Jersey State Police said.

Rosemond Octavius, 22, of Egg Harbor Township was killed in the shooting. The driver of the vehicle, Anthony Hicks, 24, of Mays Landing was not injured and stated that Octavius had been shot as he was driving down the Expressway.

The rolling shootout on the Atlantic City Expressway resulted in at least four males injured and one killed in a crime and investigation scene that stretched for miles. Five people were initially charged after New Jersey State Police detectives and partners from other agencies said they worked through the night to piece together the evidence.

Just before 3 p.m. on Aug. 29, police dispatch received multiple calls reporting shots fired between moving vehicles on the eastbound Expressway in the area of exit 12. Shortly thereafter, troopers on the Garden State Parkway received a 911 call for a medical assist on the northbound side at milepost 39, police said.

They arrived to find a man in the passenger seat of a silver Nissan Maxima who had died of a gunshot wound.

More 911 calls came in reporting that four males arrived in the parking lot of the Wawa store on Delilah Road in Egg Harbor Township, each with gunshot wounds. They were all taken to Atlantic City Medical Center for treatment, police said.

The white Ford Expedition they were traveling in had sustained an estimated 21 gunshots.

Witnesses who observed the shooting also reported a black Dodge Ram pickup truck that may have been involved in the shooting incident.

State Police detectives and Egg Harbor Police canine officers traced the path of the Expedition back to a location near the Wawa where they found four weapons including three handguns and one AK-style assault rifle. Additional evidence was located in the Expedition, which was towed to a State Police facility for a thorough forensic examination, as was the Nissan Maxima, police said.

Also arrested were: Lenardo Caro, 24, of Little Egg Harbor Township; Yahshaun Stukes-Williams, 19, of Mays Landing; Shaun Stukes, 38, of Atlantic City; Anthony Hicks, 24, of Mays Landing; and a 16-year-old male.

The Egg Harbor Township Municipal Court authorized the charges and set bail at $250,000 full cash on all subjects.

Photo: NJ State Police: Caro, Stukes-Williams, Hicks, Stukes