Updated: 25 Feb 2021, 4:47
A CORRECTIONS officer is accused of murdering his girlfriend and her best pal after the women went on a Valentine s Day vacation, authorities allege.
John Menendez, 23, a Hudson County corrections officer from West New York, was charged with the murders of Anna Shpilberg, 40, and Luiza Shinkarevskaya, 40, in Newark, New Jersey.
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John MenendezCredit: Essex County Jail
“I killed both of them - just arrest me, bro,” Menendez, 23, told cops, according to court papers.
Cops first found Shinkarevskaya dead from a bullet to her head on a sidewalk at a Jiffy’s parking lot on Tuesday, February 16.
Shpilberg was later found shot in the passenger seat of her vehicle that same night near Edison Place and Bruen Street in Newark.
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