MAYS LANDING –The ACPO Major Crimes Unit and the Somers Point Police Department are conducting a cooperative investigation of the homicide of a Somers Point man, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner announced.
Officials say on March 30, at 9:55 p.m., the Somers Point Police Department was called at the request of neighbors to a home on Chapman Avenue to complete a welfare check.
Police say upon arrival, officers located 67 year-old Somers Hickman deceased in the home.
Somers Point Police contacted the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and a cooperative investigation ensued.
According to the prosecutor, on March 31, an autopsy of Hickman was conducted and the pending cause of death is determined to be blunt force trauma and the pending manner of death is homicide.
Anyone with information, regarding this investigation is asked to call the Atlantic County Prosecutors Office Major Crimes Unit at 609-909-7800