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Mark Huff, 58, was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 10, according to Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Cary Shill.
On Jan. 6, Huff pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter for the homicide of 56 year-old Vernell K. Vance, Shill said.
Huff was arrested in Pleasantville on April 16, 2018. He was taken into custody by detectives from the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit, Atlantic City Police detectives with the assistance of Pleasantville Police.
New Jersey Transit Police were instrumental in identifying Huff as the suspect in the homicide, Shill said.
At 11:28 p.m. on April 14, 2018, Atlantic City police received a 9-1-1 call, reporting a body had been found behind 21 S. Tennessee Ave, Police found Vance, who was determined to be deceased and had suffered significant blunt force head trauma, Shill said.
An autopsy performed by Southern Regional Medical Examiner Dr. Ian Hood determined the cause of death to be blunt force head trauma and the manner of death as homicide.
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