MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) A strip club bouncer has pleaded innocent to murder charges in the fatal beating of a man outside an Atlantic City bar.

Tamer Shahid, 25, of Atlantic City, also faces aggravated assault and conspiracy charges in the July 8 beating of Peter Westra outside the Naked City club.

Westra, 24, of Dellwood, Minn., was kicked to death on the sidewalk outside the club after being ejected for allegedly groping dancers. An autopsy found he was kicked in the head, neck, torso and legs, but died from severe blows to the head that caused his brain to swell and bleed.

Shahid, who could be sentenced to life without parole if convicted, remains at the Atlantic County Jail in lieu of $350,000 bail. Club owner Ernest DiBono, 53, and three of his staff members manager Michael Morton, 38, and employees Michael Martinez, 45, and Timothy Hood, 39 all face aggravated assault and conspiracy charges in the incident.

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-philw (Lesson is...don't mess with the bouncers)