Warden at notorious Brooklyn federal jail where Ghislaine Maxwell is locked up is arrested after 'killing her husband by shooting him in the FACE'
Antonia Ashford ,44, was charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose for allegedly killing her husband Roderick Ashford, 47, by shooting him in the face
An associate warden at a Brooklyn federal jail has been arrested for killing her husband by shooting him in the face at their New Jersey residence, police said.
Antonia Ashford, 44, was taken to the Ocean County Jail after cops found her husband, Roderick Ashford, 47, shot dead at their home on Harvey Jones Drive in Jackson Township.
Ashford works at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, where alleged Jeffrey Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell is jailed awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Ashford was charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Police Chief Matthew Kunz said in a statement.
Her husband was a Bureau of Prisons employee in New Jersey, The Washington Post reported.
The Jackson Police Department arrived at the crime scene after receiving a 911 call that a man had been shot. They found Roderick Ashford with a gunshot wound to his face and on the floor. He died at the scene after paramedics tried to revive him
The couple had just purchased their $600,000 home on Harvey Jones Drive in Jackson Township earlier this year and had moved in just a few months ago
Police in Jackson Township received a 911 call around 2am on Monday that a man had been shot.
When they arrived, they found Roderick Ashford on the floor with a gunshot wound to his face.
He was pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics tried to revive him.
The couple had purchased their home for $600,000 earlier this year, and had only been living there for a few months, the Daily News reported.
Ashford worked at the Metropolitan Detention Center as an associate warden. The facility is infamous for the poor conditions inmates are under, with a federal judge calling it 'an ongoing disgrace'
Ghislaine Maxwell has also complained through her lawyer of an 'overwhelming stench from the overflowing of toilets in the cellblock above.'
The Metropolitan Detention Center is infamous for the poor conditions inmates have had to endure.
The facility was called 'an ongoing disgrace' by William Kuntz, a federal judge.
In June 2020, 35-year-old inmate Jamel Floyd died under suspicious circumstances after correction officers pepper-sprayed his face, prompting protests outside the facility.
In December 2019, a power outage at the detention center forced more than 1,500 inmates to live in freezing temperatures for a week.
Ghislaine Maxwell has also complained through her lawyer of an 'overwhelming stench from the overflowing of toilets in the cellblock above.'