A 41-year-old woman in North Carolina will spend at least a decade in prison for killing her boyfriend, shooting him in the temple after he sided with the woman’s ex-husband in a custody dispute over their children.
Buncombe County Superior Judge Jacqueline Grant ordered Jessica Barnes Ferland to serve 125 to 157 months in a state correctional facility for the 2024 slaying of 26-year-old Jaquan Devaughen Bowen, authorities announced.
According to a news release from the Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office, Grant handed down the sentence after Ferland reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder. She had initially been charged with first-degree murder…