Woman charged with killing Northfield Township foster family is heading to trial

Shuvonne Vinson, who is charged in the double murder of her daughter’s foster family, will go to trial in a case the judge called “sickening.”

“I believe God was with me that day,” said Jeffrey Bernhard, who survived the alleged home invasion. “The angle, it went through my forehead through my right eye down to the top of the inside of my mouth.”

Vinson, as well as Gregory Callhan and Keith Finley, were each charged with two counts of murder in connection with the Jan. 1, 2025, deaths of 48-year-old Jennifer Lyn Bernhard and 74-year-old Stevie Ray Smith. Prosecutors allege that the suspects shot three people before taking her 4-year-old daughter and the Bernhard family’s 9-year-old child…

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