"Man guilty of arranging wife’s killing"AP February 27, 2015
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A New York City man was convicted Thursday of setting up the fatal shooting of his wife while the couple were on a walk with one of their young sons in New Jersey.
A jury deliberated for fewer than four hours before convicting Kashif Parvaiz of scheming with his girlfriend to kill his wife and make it look like a random attack.
The August 2011 shooting occurred while Parvaiz and his wife, 27-year-old Nazish Noorani, walked with their son near her family’s home in Boonton, a New Jersey suburb about 30 miles from New York that is home to a large Pakistani-American population.
Noorani was killed, Parvaiz was wounded, and the boy was unharmed. The couple’s other son was with family members in the house.
‘‘Nothing will ever restore Nazish to her family. As her two young children grow up, they will never have their mother by their side. Her family, and most especially her siblings, will never see her again,’’ Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said in a statement. ‘‘This verdict, however, demonstrates to all of her loved ones that justice has been served.’’
Antoinette Stephen pleaded guilty to murder and other offenses and testified against Parvaiz. The Billerica, Mass., resident was having an affair with Parvaiz and admitted firing the fatal shots.
Parvaiz first told police that his family had been attacked by a group of men who called them terrorists and suggested that it was a bias crime, prosecutors said. Noorani was originally from Karachi.
The victim’s sister, Lubna Choudhry, cried in the hallway in the arms of her brother, Kaleem Norrani, after the verdict was read.
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