Camden man sentenced for fatal shooting at gas station

CAMDEN – A city man has received a 63-year prison term for the fatal shooting of a man in a car in September 2020.

Cornell Tarte, 35, must serve more than 50 years before parole eligibility, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.

Michael Milton gunned down at gas station

The victim, 45-year-old Michael Milton of Woodlynne, was fatally shot in a car at a gas station at Mount Ephraim and Kaighn avenues in Camden, the prosecutor’s office said.

Tarte was identified as a suspect after investigators reviewed surveillance video from multiple cameras, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The video showed a man approaching Milton’s vehicle around 11:18 p.m. The man then fired a shot into the car and walked away, the statement said.

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Cornell Tarte linked to shooting

Tarte was arrested on unrelated charges in Atlantic City in September 2020, when he was also charged with Milton's murder.

A cellphone taken from him at that time held digital photos of a Ruger EC9s 9 mm handgun. A similar gun, recovered in Burlington County in March 2021, was a ballistic match with a shell casing at the murder scene, the prosecutor's office said.

Tarte, who was sentenced March 23, was found guilty of murder and weapons offenses after a seven-week trial last year before Superior Court Judge David Ragonese.

Jim Walsh is a senior reporter with the Courier-Post, Burlington County Times and The Daily Journal.

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