On the evening of January 20, 2024, multiple gunshots were detected by ShotSpotter near 119 N. Virginia Avenue in Atlantic City. Officers found 32-year-old Christian Hunter, a resident of Atlantic City known to friends as Chop or Choppy, unresponsive on the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds. He was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s City Campus and was pronounced dead soon after; an autopsy ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the neck and the manner of death homicide.

Scene evidence suggested a robbery: Hunter’s pockets had been turned out and his cell phone was missing. Phone records and follow-up leads connected a New York couple, Howard Griswold, 24, and Melissa Tikaram, 28, to the case. Tikaram had been in contact with Hunter moments before the shooting, the Rogue was found at Resorts Hotel & Casino in a room registered to Tikaram, and a man believed to be Griswold answered calls to Hunter’s missing phone.

Both suspects were arrested in Syracuse and later extradited to Atlantic County. An Atlantic County Grand Jury indicted Griswold and Tikaram on murder, robbery, and theft charges in May 2024. Did anyone in Atlantic City see the Nissan Rogue or the area around N. Virginia Avenue that night?