2006 Media Releases:

CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
VINCENT P. SARUBBI, CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
MEDIA   INFORMATION

February 9, 2006

Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi, Camden Police Executive Robert L. Stewart and James Plousis, United States Marshal for the District of New Jersey, reported that a man was arrested today on a Murder charge stemming from a fatal shooting in September in Camden, N.J.

Perman Pitman, 34, of North 41st Street in Camden, is accused of fatally shooting Robert Mays, 51, in the 800 block of North 5th Street in the North Camden section of the city on Sept. 27, 2005. Pitman is being held in the Camden County Correctional Facility pending an arraignment scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10, at approximately 9 a.m. before Superior Court Judge Linda G. Baxter, Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division in Camden, in Courtroom 33 of the Camden County Hall of Justice, 5th Street & Mickle Boulevard, Camden.

Camden Police responded to a call reporting shots fired at 12:06 a.m. on Sept. 27 and found the victim, Robert A. Mays, of Camden, lying on the porch of a home in the 800 block of North 5th Street in the North Camden section of the city. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and died a short time later at Virtua Hospital in Camden.

According to a Probable Cause Statement accompanying the arrest warrant, a witness observed the defendant approach the victim, shoot him multiple times and then rifle through the victim’s pockets. Investigators believe the shooting was drug-related.

The U.S. Marshal’s Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Pitman this morning without incident at his job in Cherry Hill.

All persons charged with criminal offenses are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.