Malikah McLaughlin, 26, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of August 28, 2022, while walking along the first block of South Bellevue Avenue in Atlantic City. Surveillance footage reportedly showed a dark Infiniti sedan with a silver-colored hood pull up, three men exit, and one of them chase McLaughlin as she ran, fell and was shot multiple times. Police found her lying unresponsive; an autopsy ruled the death a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds.

As the suspects fled, another person fired at the Infiniti, striking its rear and wounding an occupant. About four minutes later the car arrived at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s City Campus, where Lester Robinson exited with a gunshot wound to his back. Investigators linked Robinson and two other men to the vehicle using surveillance, witness statements, telephone information and other evidence.

Robinson was arrested August 31, 2022, and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and several weapons offenses. Quamel Schaffer was arrested in October 2022 and charged with murder; Phillip Hayes was identified as the third accused participant and was a fugitive after an October 5, 2022 warrant. A December 6, 2022 grand jury indicted five people, including Hayes, Robinson and Schaffer on murder, conspiracy and weapons charges; two women were indicted on hindering apprehension charges.

Does anyone have information about Malikah’s movements that night or about the dark Infiniti seen on South Bellevue Avenue?