Monmouth, NJ: Police: N.J. woman, killer had affair

By TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF From staff and wire reports
Published: July 07, 2011
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Authorities say a New Jersey corrections officer was having an affair with the convict who killed her in Newark before killing himself outside a Richmond bus station.

Katrina Owens, 37, lived in Monmouth Junction with her three children and her husband, who is a sergeant in the state Corrections Department.

Acting Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio told the Newark Star-Ledger that Owens was having an affair with the man who killed her, 21-year-old Allen Barron.

As a juvenile, he was an inmate at the New Jersey Training School in Jamesburg when she was a guard there.

Authorities say Barron fatally shot Owens about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday after a dispute that occurred while she was at a barbecue.

After the shooting, Barron drove to Richmond in Owens' Nissan Armada, authorities believe.

Members of the Richmond area's U.S. Marshal's Service Fugitive Task Force found Barron on Tuesday morning outside the Greyhound Lines Inc. bus station in the 2900 block of North Boulevard.

When a plainclothes deputy marshal sought to get a better look at Barron to make sure it was him, the suspect drew a gun and pointed it at the marshal before fatally shooting himself once in the head about 10:40 a.m., authorities said.

Hours after Barron died, Richmond police found Owens' Nissan in a parking lot at North 18th and East Marshall streets in Richmond, according to authorities in Richmond and New Jersey.

Richmond police declined to comment on why investigators believe Barron came to Richmond or how he got to the bus stop, which is a 4½-mile drive or walk from where the Nissan was found.