Suspect arrested in fatal 11/10 Wash. Twp. stabbing

PRESS RELEASE

November 11, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld-PIO

Officers with the Gloucester County Prosecutor's fugitive unit, assisted by local police and K-9 teams, at about 10 a.m. this morning (11/11) arrested 42-year-old Mark Holloway, no known address, as a suspect in the fatal stabbing of 43-year-old Kim Barnum about 8 p.m. Friday night in the victim's apartment on Fries Mill Road in the Birches section of Washington Township, Gloucester County NJ.

Charges of first-degree murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose were signed this aftenoon and bail was set at $1 million. Holloway, who initially was held on other outstanding arrest warrants, has been placed in the Gloucester County Jail, Woodbury NJ. A Search warant will be requested for a location where it is believed the weapon used in the attack on Barnum can be found.

Sgt. Barry Johnson, supervisor of the GCPO fugitive unit, took Holloway into custody without incident in an abandoned trailer in the Colonial Estates mobile home park off the Black Horse Pikein Monroe Township, Gloucester County NJ. Johnson was working with officers from Monroe and K-9 teams from Monroe and the Gloucester County Sheriff's Department.

Investigators believe Holloway fled from his mother's car last night after she drove him drom Barnum's apartment enroute to deliver him to police. Along with New Jersey State Police and police from surrounding districts and a K-9 unit on the ground, the search in a wooded are of Monroe township last night included a Philadelphia Police helicopter with thermal imaging equipment. This morning, members of the GCPO fugitive unit focused on places where Holloway frequented, including Colonial Estates.

Holloway was transported to the Gloucester County Justice Complex in Woodbury for booking and possible questioning. He and Barnum, who lived alone in her apartment unit, had a history of domestic violence. An sutopsy on the victim by the Gloucester County Medical Examiner this morning determined there were multiple stab wounds consistent with a long, thin knife blade. The two most significant wounds were to a lung and the aorta.

Washington and Monroe townships have handled previous domestic violence incidents involving Holloway and Barnum, the most recent in April, with injuries to both. At that time, Barnum declined to have a temporary restraining order issued against Holloway.

"This offense underscores the importance for all victims of domestic violence to seek assistance," Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean F. Dalton said of the county's second homicide this year, both the result of domestic violence. "We are pleased at the quick apprehension as a result of the work of our fugitive unit, working with the New Jersey State Police, teh US Marshal's Fugitive Task Force in Camden as well as local police departments." The GCPO crime scene and major crimes units also responded to the murder scene.