Man pleads guilty to Winslow barbershop killing

A Sicklerville man has admitted to fatally shooting another man at a Winslow barbershop on New Year's Eve in 2011.

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office said 42-year-old Jamal Herrin pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree aggravated manslaughter in the slaying of Terrance Barnum.

Barnum, a 40-year-old Sicklerville resident, was found suffering a gunshot wound to his head inside the Old School Nostalgia Barber Shop, on the 500 block of Sicklerville Road, on the evening of Dec. 31, 2011.

The deadly shooting happened shortly after an altercation was reported at the barbershop, prosecutors said.

Witnesses told investigators that Herrin went to his car after engaging in a verbal dispute with a group of men in front of the business. He returned to the barbershop with a handgun and shot and killed Barnum, prosecutors said.

Children were present during the outburst of violence at the shop, authorities said.

Herrin was arrested at a Gloucester County hotel on Jan. 3, 2012. Officials said he has not offered a motive for the shooting.

He is slated to be sentenced on July 17 and faces up to 25 years behind bars.

Herrin's sentence is expected to run consecutively to a 10-year federal prison sentence he is serving now for a 2013 drug-distribution conviction.

In that case, Herrin pleaded guilty to trying to purchase more than 28 pounds of cocaine for intended distribution in New Jersey, admitting that he amassed more than $325,000 to purchase the drugs.

Federal prosecutors said the Drug Enforcement Administration began investigating Herrin in the cocaine case in April 2012, when he was out on bail after his arrest in the Winslow homicide case.