Gunned down three Pleasantville men with an AK-47 assault rifle on the eastbound lanes of Route 30 just outside of Atlantic city.

Lloyd Massey II's run from justice ended one day after a relative called city police from Georgia to tell them the 21-year old city casino-hotel security guard was responsible for the shooting deaths.

  

3 killed, 1 injured in A.C. shooting

The Philadelphia Inquirer

September 9, 2000

The victims and shooter were not strangers, Police said. Two bodies were in a car, the other on route 30.

Three men were shot to death and another was injured in a shooting on the eastbound lanes of Route 30, just west of the resort city, early yesterday morning.

Police said two men were found dead inside a bullet-riddled four-door Honda Accord in a ditch along the shoulder of the roadway, also known as the White Horse Pike, just after 4 a.m. A third man was found dead in the roadway about 50 yards from the car. The shooting occurred just west of the Absecon drawbridge, near a remote parking area.

Gunman's route 30 ambush leaves three dead in A.C.

The Press of Atlantic City

September 9, 2000

Ambush. Twenty-four shots in less than a minute. Three dead.

A man with an assault rifle opened fire early Friday at a car stopped at a White Horse Pike red light about two miles west of the Boardwalk casinos. He killed the driver in the two-lane highway when the driver tried to run away and slew two passengers who couldn't get out of the vehicle.

Man opens fire on car, leaves three dead in Atlantic City

September 9, 2000

A man with an assault rifle opened fire on a car at a traffic light Friday, spraying it with bullets and killing three of the four people inside.

At least 24 shots were fired in the pre-dawn ambush on U.S. 30, about two miles west of the city's Boardwalk casinos, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey Blitz.

A.C. guard at casino held in 3 slayings

The Philadelphia Inquirer

September 13, 2000

Lloyd Massey 2d is being held on $3 million bail in Atlanta. He is charged with killing three Pleasantville men on route 30.

A casino security guard was arrested in Georgia yesterday and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of three Pleasantville men last Friday on Route 30.

Investigators said Lloyd Massey II, 21, had quarreled with one of the victims outside an Egg Harbor bar in the early-morning hours Friday. Massey subsequently followed the victims' car, got ahead of it, and ambushed them at a stoplight, investigators said.

Cops arrest suspect in Atlantic City triple slayings

The Press of Atlantic City

September 13, 2000

He allegedly gunned down three Pleasantville men with an AK-47 assault rifle and hopped a train to Atlanta, leaving police trying to figure out who was responsible for a Friday-morning triple homicide on the White Horse Pike.

But, authorities said, Lloyd Massey II's run from justice ended Tuesday afternoon, one day after a relative called city police from Georgia to tell them the 21-year old city casino-hotel security guard was responsible for the shooting deaths.

Casino guard and shooting victims lived in same area

The Philadelphia Inquirer

September 16, 2000

Standing bravely a dozen yards from where her son was slain last week in a triple homicide, Diane White straightened the cards, candles, balloons and teddy bears left at the makeshift memorial along Route 30.

Richard "Tyree" White's mother recalled her "first-born baby" yesterday as a loving father of four and as a construction laborer who worked hard alongside his father, Richard Sr.

Triple-murder suspect waives extradition

The Press of Atlantic City

September 14, 2000

The 21-year-old Pleasantville man charged with last week's triple murder on the White Horse Pike waived an extradition hearing in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon and will return here to face charges in the case.

An attorney representing Lloyd Massey II told The Press of Atlantic City she expects that her client "will be fully vindicated of those charges," adding that he fled to his uncle's Atlanta home because he and his family received numerous death threats.

A.C. slaying suspect to appear in Court

The Press of Atlantic City

September 15, 2000

The suspect accused of gunning down three Pleasantville men during a Sept. 8 ambush on the White Horse Pike returned to New Jersey on Thursday and will appear in Atlantic County Superior Court this morning.

Lloyd Massey II will stand before Superior Court Judge Michael Connor in Mays Landing during an 8:45 a.m. first-appearance hearing, Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey S. Blitz said Thursday.

Triple-murder suspect pleads not guilty; $3m. bail set

The Press of Atlantic City

September 16, 2000

Accused triple murderer Lloyd Massey II was arraigned Friday amid tight security measures and returned to jail on $3 million bond as the prosecution builds its case and considers the death penalty.

A hush fell over the packed courtroom, where 13 sheriff's officers stood imposingly as Massey, 21, of Pleasantville, walked in wearing a bulletproof vest and a black-and-white striped jail uniform. The stripes - a contrast to most inmates' orange jumpsuits - are used for inmates who are security risks.

Pleasantville man faces death penalty in ambush, 3 killings

The Press of Atlantic City

December 8, 2000

A 21-year-old Pleasantville man accused of following a car after an argument, blocking it and then gunning down three passengers inside now faces the death penalty.

Lloyd Massey II was indicted on three counts of murder, attempted murder, and second- and third-degree weapons offenses, in addition to hindering apprehension and evidence tampering, according to the indictment.

Man pleads not guilty in the Atlantic City slaying of three

The Philadelphia Inquirer

January 10, 2001

Lloyd Massey II, a casino worker, is accused of using an AK-47 in the roadside killings. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Wearing a bulletproof vest, the man accused of killing three Pleasantville men in a bloody shooting last year on Route 30 appeared in Atlantic County Superior Court yesterday to plead not guilty to the charges.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Lloyd Massey II, 21, a casino security guard from Pleasantville. He is charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and two weapons violations in the Sept. 8 roadside slayings near a remote casino-employee parking lot.

Jury in Rte. 30 killings ponders ex-guard's fate

The Philadelphia Inquirer

June 26, 2002

Lloyd Massey 2d, 22, faces a life term or death for killing three men. He has pleaded for his life.

A day after he pleaded with them to spare his life, a former casino security guard's fate was put in the hands of a jury yesterday.

"I ask you to spare my life. I am so central to the lives of my family. It would hurt them so much if I were gone," Lloyd Massey 2d told jurors Monday. "I ask you to grant me that mercy. And I promise you, you won't regret it."

Massey gets three life terms for Atlantic City slayings

September 20, 2002

Lloyd Massey, 23, of Pleasantville, used an AK-47 assault rifle to gun down three victims in an ambush shooting on Sept. 8, 2000, on Route 30 in Atlantic City.

Convicted triple murderer Lloyd Massey II was sentenced Thursday to life, plus life, plus life, plus 20 years.

"What I am about to sentence you to is one of the longest sentences in Atlantic County and possibly in the history of New Jersey," Superior Court Judge James Isman told the defendant, who stood motionless as the verdict was read.

Lloyd Massey II