US cops release video of Bangladeshi woman’s ‘killer’
Funeral held
New York police yesterday released a surveillance video of the person of interest in the killing of Bangladeshi woman Nazma Khanam who was hacked to death in Jamaica, Queens on Wednesday night.
The NYPD is also offering a reward of $10,000 for information leading to an arrest, reports CBS New York.
Investigators are trying to determine whether the slaying was the result of an attempted robbery or a hate crime, the report said.
The funeral of the 60-year-old woman was held outside the Masjid Al-Mamoor Muslim Center in Jamaica after Friday prayer. A crowd of more than 1,000 mourners including family gathered there.
Body to be sent to Bangladesh
Nazma Khanam’s nephew Humayun Kabir, transit officer of NYPD and the secretary general for Bangladeshi American Police Association, said, “We will be sending her body back to Bangladesh to be laid to rest where her family resides.”
“Please pray for my uncle and for his family,” Kabir said.
Shamsul Alam Khan, the victim’s 75-year-old widower, left the funeral sobbing uncontrollably. “I could not save her!” Khan told the CBS2 channel. “Why this happened?” he added.
“When I see blood, I am puzzled. I cannot say anything,” Khan said.
As Khanam’s son grieved, he said his mother was a loving wife, friend and teacher.
“She’s very sweet. She doesn’t have a problem with anybody else, you know,” said Naimul Alam Khan.
“So, I don’t know why the people, you know, went behind my mom, you know – why they tried to kill her?”
“We are not bad people,” Naimul Alam Khan said. “I lose my main person in my family, so you know, I have no doubt, so I need now justice.”
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Khanam was not robbed and didn’t know her murderer; her last words to her husband were, “Someone killed me.”
Meanwhile, protesters outside Khanam’s funeral held signs that read “Stop the Killing” and “All Lives Matter.”
Khanam and her husband moved to the area from Bangladesh in 2009, but they had just become US citizens in June.
She leaves behind three children and several grandchildren.