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Arrest made in shooting death of teen girl in Atlantic City

The teenager's body was found inside a house a block away from former Revel casino.

Nahquil Lovest, 18, is charged with murder in the shooting death of 15 year-old Naimah Bell in Atlantic City.
Nahquil Lovest, 18, is charged with murder in the shooting death of 15 year-old Naimah Bell in Atlantic City.Read moreAtlantic County Prosecutor's Office (custom credit)
    by Robert Moran
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An 18-year-old man was arrested Friday in the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in a house in Atlantic City, officials said.

Nahquil Lovest, 18, of Pleasantville, is charged with murder in the slaying of Naimah Bell, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner said.

Police responding to a 911 call at 4:17 a.m. Thursday found the body of the Bell with a bullet wound to her head inside a house in the 100 block of South Massachusetts Avenue, about a block away from the former Revel site now known as the Ocean Casino Resort.

Bell also was a resident of Pleasantville and officials did not say why she was the house.

Police also did not disclose a possible motive in the shooting or say what led them to Lovest.