QUEENS — Police on Saturday arrested a man they say killed and robbed the aunt of an NYPD officer as she walked home with her husband in Jamaica Hills last week.
Yonatan Galvez-Marin, 22, allegedly stabbed Nazma Khanam, 60, in the torso as she and her 75-year-old husband were walking near Normal Road and 160th Street about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
Galvez-Marin, who lives just down the street from where the stabbing occurred on Normal Road, was charged with murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon, according to the NYPD.
Khanam, a former English teacher from Bangladesh, was walking home from the small souvenir shop she operated with her husband Shamsul Alam Khan when the stabbing occurred. The two stopped to get groceries, but Khanam ended up walking slowly about two blocks ahead of Khan because of poor health.
As he walked down the street, he heard his wife scream, "Somebody killed me! Somebody killed me!," his nephew Mohammed M. Rahman, 47, said on Thursday.
"He didn't realize it was his wife screaming," Mohammed Rahman said. "He told me when he got closer, he knows her voice. She lay down. He asked her what happened and he felt blood on his hands. He was asking, 'What happened? What happened?'"
She was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where she later died.
At Khanam's funeral Friday outside the Jamaica Muslim Center at 85-37 168th St., Khan asked the community to pray for his wife, before being led away in tears.
A police spokeswoman on Sunday said the incident was an attempted robbery that escalated, and was not being investigated as a hate crime.
