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Ryan Ross, Asbury Park Press

JACKSON - A 44-year-old township woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of her husband in the early morning hours of Monday, according to authorities.

Antonia Ashford, wascharged Monday with murder and with possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, announced Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Jackson Township Police Chief Matthew Kunz late Monday night.

Jackson police responded to the home on Harvey Jones Drive at 2:15 a.m. in response to a 911 call that a man had been shot, Billhimer and Kunz said in a joint statement.

The officers found the body of Roderick Ashford, 47, lying unresponsive on the floor with a gunshot wound to hisface. Attempts were made to revive Ashford, but he ultimately succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deadat the scene, the statement said.

An investigation has determined that Antonia Ashford pointed thehandgun at her husbandAshford and then firedthe weapon, killing him, the statement said.

Antonia Ashford was arrested and takento the Ocean County Jail in Toms River, where she remained Monday night pending a detention hearing in state Superior Court, according to Billhimer and Kunz.

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On Monday morning, police tape was stretched across Harvey Jones Drive at two different points restricting access from roughly the middle of the half-mile-long street while Ocean County Sheriffs Office vehicles, including a satellite truck, sat idle near the home where the shooting was believed to have taken place.

Some neighbors just a few feet away from the home at the center of the police investigation said they didnt realize anything was wrong until the morning, when law enforcement officers knocked on their doors.

Sandy Troyano, who lives next door to the house where an investigation seemed to be underway this morning, said neither she nor her children heard anything overnight. She said the family at the home had only moved onto the street a few months ago.

Who would think this could happen? Its right in your own backyard, Troyano said.

Jim Senkewicz, who lives diagonally to the home, said he heard the sounds of a truck backing up just before 3 a.m., which he believes were the first investigatory units arriving on scene.

Billhimer and Kunz said the investigation underway was being done by the Prosecutors Office Major Crime Unit, the Jackson Police Department Detective Bureau and Patrol Division, and the Ocean County Sheriffs Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit.

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