After a three-month manhunt police arrested the man they allege sent bullets flying into a crowd of people just off Atlantic City's famous boardwalk just hours after the city's Fourth of July celebration.
On Thursday, 19-year-old Andrew Miller was arrested inside the Trump Taj Mahal. Miller was wanted for shooting 21-year-old Stanley Lovett in the chest and a 17-year-old in the leg and firing shots at a third man who wasn't hit outside of Bally's Park Place casino around 1 a.m. on July 5.
All the men survived the shooting.
Surveillance cameras captured the whole wild scene.
"The younger kids, they don't think twice about pulling out a gun and shooting somebody," the father of one of the victims told us. "It's a tragedy. Kids can't go to Atlantic City and walk down the boardwalk without something like this happening."
The Vineland man didn't want to be identified, but it was his 17-year-old son who was shot.
"I want to see them get caught," the father said.
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The father seemingly got his wish Thursday.
Miller, the alleged shooter, was identified with the public's help, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. The Pleasantville man faces three counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault and weapons charges.
"This appears to be a spontaneous type of thing, unrelated to any prior motives," said Atlantic County Prosecutor, Ted Housel.
At the time police said a man pulled out a gun and started shooting, following a fight between two groups. The victims were among close to 150,000 people in A.C. for the resort's fireworks a few hours earlier.
"You get 150,000 people together from outside, you're going to get some not-so-nice people," said Housel.
Authorities believe the trouble actually started inside Bally's.
"There's footage that seems to indicate some type of mouthing off at least, that occurred back in the casino, that ended up on the street," said Housel.
A gun was recovered at the scene.
Miller's bail was set at $1 million.
Atlantic City and the state of New Jersey are trying to improve the resort's image, and authorities insist this could have happened anywhere.
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