A New Hampshire man was convicted on Thursday of murdering his wife’s co-worker in a gruesome September 2020 killing and dismemberment case that shocked the New England region.
Armando Barron, 32, shot and killed 25-year-old Jonathan Amerault in a park just across the Massachusetts state line. The motive the state provided for the murder was jealousy and rage–a hate that brewed for quite some time after the defendant realized his wife, 33-year Britany Barron, was messaging the victim on Snapchat.
“The defendant had all the motive to kill Jonathan, because for him, Jonathan was a man who had just started seeing his wife,” prosecutor Benjamin Agati said during closing arguments. “A man who his wife thought looked liked an Abercrombie model, a man who was at her workplace that he now knew was talking to his wife behind his back. The man that he instantly saw as a rival.”
But the violence didn’t start–or end–with the shooting. Not nearly.
Before the shooting, Britany Barron testified that her husband choked and dragged her before repeatedly punching her in the face over the Snapchat revelations. After that, she told jurors, he shoved a gun in her mouth, promised to kill her, collected himself, made sure their kids were with their grandmother, and put his killing plan into action.
“We’re gonna message your little boyfriend,” the defendant told his wife as the two sat alone in their car at the park.
Amerault was ambushed by Armando Barron when he arrived at the park–drawn there by the subterfuge of the defendant using his wife’s cell phone to ask the victim to come out late that night.
“You’re trying to fuck my wife?” the defendant asked Amerault as the three finally met on Sept. 25, 2020,…
