{"id":437890,"date":"2026-01-30T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437890\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:10:09","slug":"atlantic-city-man-admits-to-firing-gun-spitting-on-corrections-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437890\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic City man admits to firing gun, spitting on corrections officer"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n David Hood is currently in prison for attacks on corrections officers in Cape May and Salem counties. (N.J. Department of Corrections)<\/p>\n

An Atlantic City man already in prison for attacks on officers while incarcerated pleaded guilty Thursday to firing a gun and striking a vehicle in 2023.<\/p>\n

David Hood, 33, also admitted to spitting in a corrections officer’s face while in the Atlantic County Justice Facility.<\/p>\n

It was not the first time Hood attacked an officer while incarcerated \u2014 nor the last, court records show.<\/p>\n

Hood currently is in South Woods State Prison after he admitted to an attack on a corrections officer in Cape May County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty to third-degree aggravated assault and refusal to submit to fingerprinting, court records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hood pleaded guilty in August and has been in prison since Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

He already had admitted to attacking another officer in the Salem County Correctional Facility, and was serving a 364-day jail sentence on that.<\/p>\n

In that case, the officer came to tell Hood his half-hour time out of his cell was starting, when Hood attacked.<\/p>\n

“He smirked at me as I turned around to continue my security tour,” the officer wrote in the affidavit of probable cause obtained by BreakingAC. “I felt something hit me on the side of my head. As I went down to cover (not know) what had just occurred, I felt another blow to the back of my head.”<\/p>\n

With those two sentencings, Hood would be eligible for parole this March 8, with a maximum date of Sept. 21, 2027, according to state Department of Corrections records.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0David Hood looks much different in his mugshot from 2023, released by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office after his plea Jan. 29, 2026.
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Now he faces five years without parole after pleading guilty to second-degree charges of possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose and certain person not to possess a weapon.<\/p>\n

Hood admitted that on Sept. 12, 2023, he fired a gun in the area of the 700 block of North Virginia Avenue.<\/p>\n

A witness told police he did not know where the bullets came from, but that one struck his vehicle.<\/p>\n

In that case, a tip to the city’s anonymous text line helped make the arrest.<\/p>\n

Three days after the shooting, police got a text that Hood had a handgun and was driving a black Mazda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police found the vehicle near the Family Dollar, and arrested Hood with a handgun loaded with ammunition that matched a projectile recovered from the scene.<\/p>\n

While still detained on that charge last year, Hood spit in a corrections officers face June 26.<\/p>\n

He is scheduled to be sentenced in Atlantic County on April 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Hood is currently in prison for attacks on corrections officers in Cape May and Salem counties. (N.J.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-437890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}