A St. Johns County grand jury today indicted Christian Barrios on two counts of first-degree murder in the execution-style shooting death less than three weeks ago of his girlfriend, Melissa Wood, and Jason Chatham in the parking lot of a Walgreens on State Road A1A in Ponte Vedra.
Barrios, 32, is a convicted felon several times over with two prison sentences behind him, the last one ending in November 2023. He was on drug-offender probation on a 2025 Duval County conviction for meth possession, a term that wasn’t to end until August 2027.
Late the night of March 13, Barrios had his mother drive him to Walgreens, ostensibly to confront Wood, thinking she was cheating on him. He rode in the backseat as his mother drove. As soon as they arrived at Walgreens and he saw Wood’s car, Barrios bounded out of his mother’s car and walked in the other car’s direction. His mother told authorities she then heard several gunshots from that direction. She called 911…