Sicklerville Man Admits to 2011 Murder Outside Barber Shop

A Sicklerville man admitted to fatally shooting a man inside a Winslow barbershop in 2011, Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo and Winslow Police Chief Robert Stimelski said on Tuesday.

Jamal Herrin, 42, pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter in the death of 40-year-old Sicklerville resident Terrance Barnum. He gave no reason for committing the murder.

Winslow Police found Barnum shot in the head inside the Old School Nostalgia Barber Shop on the 500 block of Sicklerville Road on Dec. 31, 2011. Children were present at the barbershop at the time of the shooting.

Police were alerted to a fight at the barber shop around 6 p.m. that night. While on their way to the scene, they received another report of a man who had been shot.

Several witnesses told detectives that there had been an altercation outside the shop involving Herrin and a group of men.

Following an argument, Herrin retrieved a gun from his car, returned to the front of the barbershop and shot Barnum.

He was arrested in the early morning hours of Jan. 3, 2012, at a hotel in Logan Township, Gloucester County.

Herrin faces up to 25 years in state prison when he is sentenced on July 17. Under the No Early Release Act, he will be required to serve at least 85 percent of his prison sentence before he is eligible for parole.

In 2012, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to purchase 13 kilograms of cocaine for distribution throughout New Jersey and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Whatever sentence is handed down for the murder will run consecutive to that sentence.