Authorities arrested Nahquil Lovest of Pleasantville early Friday morning and charged him in the murder of Naimah Bell.
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Bell was shot and killed inside a home on the 100 block of S. Massachusetts Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday.
15-year-old girl shot and killed in Atlantic City
Police said an initial autopsy was conducted and determined that the pending cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the head and the pending manner of death as a homicide.
Lovest was arrested without incident by members of the Atlantic City Police Department Violent Crime Unit and Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, with the assistance of the Atlantic County SWAT team.
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He was taken to the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
A detention hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.