Man Charged With Hiring Shooter In Atlantic City Homicide: Prosecutor

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — An Atlantic City man was charged with conspiring with and hiring someone to kill Lamir King in 2019, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said.

Khalif S. Toombs has been charged with conspiracy, hiring someone to kill King for payment or promise of payment, possession of a revolver without a permit and possessing a firearm to use unlawfully in King's homicide, Prosecutor William E. Reynolds said.

Toombs is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for his role as the leader of an Atlantic City heroin trafficking ring that caused 48 deaths and 84 nonfatal overdoses in 18 months.

On Jan. 1, 2019, Atlantic City police responded to the 700 block of North Ohio Avenue where King was unconscious and unresponsive in a car, Reynolds said. King was pronounced dead and an autopsy said the cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds and the manner of death was homicide, Reynolds said.

The shooter was charged with the murder of King in 2019, Reynolds said. Toombs is currently in custody and if convicted of hiring another to commit murder, will be subject to mandatory life imprisonment, Reynolds said.

The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office was assisted in this investigation by the Atlantic City Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.