NEW ORLEANS — St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann said a Chalmette man was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 27 for killing his ex-wife with an ax in front of her Chalmette home.
Mark Owens, 56, who is from Chalmette but was staying in Arabi, was booked with second-degree murder after he surrendered.
At approximately 8 a.m., Sheriff Pohlmann said, deputies responded to a call about a disturbance involving a man attacking a woman with an ax outside her home. When deputies arrived on the scene the suspect had fled, but Kimberly Owens, 48, was found fatally wounded as a result of the attack.
The investigation is ongoing.
