Man charged with killing estranged wife
Saturday,
July
19
( 6:28 pm)
WINSTON-SALEM - A man was arrested Saturday and charged with killing his estranged wife.
Police officers responded at 7:32 a.m. to 4260 Brownsboro Road to assist Forsyth County Medical Services on a medical call. Officers found the victim, Tosha Cassandra Barr, 25, outside, lying on the ground and suffering from a laceration. Barr was taken to the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center where she later died.
Police arrested her estranged husband -- Travis Lawan Barr, 34, of 1206 E. 23rd St. in Winston-Salem -- and charged him with first-degree. Barr was held in jail without bond.
This is the 11th homicide in Winston-Salem for 2008.
