
08/05/2025
MAYS LANDING, NJ – On Monday, August 4, 2025, Ibn Demps, 26, of Atlantic City, NJ, pleaded
guilty on two separate indictments to second-degree aggravated assault and second-degree certain persons not to possess weapons. Demps is expected to be sentenced to an aggregate
term of eight years in New Jersey State Prison, subject to the Graves Act and the No Early Release Act. Under the latter, Demps is required to serve 85% of his sentence. Upon his release, Demps will be subject to three years of intensive parole supervision.
On September 21, 2022, at approximately 4:39 p.m., members of the Atlantic City Police
Department responded to a shooting in the area of 154 N. South Carolina Avenue. Upon arrival,
police located a gunshot victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. A review of
surveillance video led police to identify Ibn Demps as the shooter. Surveillance video showed
Demps playing dice with a group of men in the courtyard area of a housing complex before pulling
out a handgun and shooting the victim at near point-blank range in the stomach area. Demps
was apprehended by police on December 9, 2022. Upon arresting Demps, who was found inside
the same home which surveillance video recorded him fleeing into after the shooting, the police
located a handgun. The State Police ballistics laboratory subsequently confirmed that the
recovered handgun had been used to shoot the victim.
Demps was scheduled to attend a Recovery Court session on the day of the shooting, but he
failed to appear. After the shooting, he was charged with a violation, and he is expected to receive
a concurrent term in state prison.
Demps also pleaded guilty to shooting a handgun at a local gun range in November 2022. Demps
lied on the registration form by denying he was a convicted felon. Police determined that Demps
had gone to the gun range after viewing cellphone videos which were recovered during the
shooting investigation.
These matters were investigated by the Violent Crimes Unit of the Atlantic City Police Department. These matters were prosecuted by Assistant Prosecutor Chris D’Esposito of the Gangs, Guns,
and Narcotics Unit of the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office.