The husband of a Pakistani woman who was gunned down Tuesday night as she pushed her 3-year-old son in a stroller in Boonton, a small town in neighbouring state of New Jersey, has been arrested and charged with murder, according to US media reports Kashif Parvaiz, 26, suffered non-life-threatening wounds in the shooting that killed his 27-year-old wife, Nazish Noorani.
The boy was unharmed. Morris County prosecutor Robert Bianchi told a news conference that a second suspect, arrested in Boston, had also been charged in the death of the Ms. Noorani, an emergency medical worker. That suspect, identified as Antoinette Stephen, 26, was being held on $5 million bail and was waiting to be extradited, Bianchi. Bianchi said “there’s obviously a relationship†between Ms. Stephen and Ms. Noorani’s husband, and that investigators were working to pin down the nature of the relationship, adding, “I’m not saying it’s physical, that they’re girlfriend, boyfriend.
“According to a police arrest report, Parvaiz admitted that he had been involved in the shooting. In the report, Parvaiz is said to have acknowledged during questioning by detectives that “there were issues in his marriage and that he was angry at his wife, the victim, for allegedly speaking negatively about his family.†Parvaiz was hospitalized after the shooting, and prosecutors declined to say where he was on Friday, citing concerns for his safety.
Parvaiz maintained that one of the men was black and another was white, according to the arrest report, adding that Mr. Parvaiz had told investigators he did not know the third assailant’s race. Parvaiz said two of the three were armed.—APP