Thirty years ago, Lorenzo Carter was a suspected Jamaican drug smuggler
carving out turf in Atlantic City during the Wild West days at the start of the
town's casino era.
One spring morning in 1980, say police, Carter walked up to a green Cadillac
idling at a rundown intersection and opened fire with a handgun, killing a
passenger also believed to be in the drug game.
Everton Kelly, 26, and John Sessoms, 39, had been riddled with bullets as
they sat in a car in front of a sandwich shop near Delaware and Atlantic
Avenues in the city's Inlet section.
Despite a warrant for Carter's arrest, the case file sat for decades, collecting
dust in a cabinet at the Atlantic County Sheriff's Office.
In January, a new countywide cold-case unit, working in conjunction with U.S.
marshals, took a second look at the case and what is believed to be the oldest
homicide warrant in Atlantic County, authorities said.
On Monday morning February 22, 2010., marshals tracked Carter, now 53, to
an apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was handcuffed after fleeing across
rooftops in his pajama bottoms.