Pakistani Woman Killed On NJ Street May Have Been "Targeted"

Kashif Parvaiz, who was wounded, and Nazish Noorani, who was fatally shot

As the Morris County prosecutor's homicide division investigates the fatal shooting of a woman on a suburban NJ street, police believe that 27-year-old Pakistani immigrant Nazish Noorani was the intended target. Noorani was shot in the heart while walking a few blocks in Boonton with her husband, Kashif Parvaiz, 26 and three-year-old son. Parvaiz was shot in the ankle and shoulder, while the child was unharmed (but "splattered in blood"). Relatives of the couple say that investigators have been asking about a Brooklyn man who owns a towing business and now there's speculation that there was a love triangle-aspect to the violence.

Parvaiz apparently told relatives he was attending Harvard for graduate school (Harvard has been unable to confirm a student with Parvaiz's name at this point) and the family had recently rented an apartment in East Boston. According to the Star-Ledger, "Two neighbors at the Waldemar Street building described the couple as friendly but the marriage as strained. Noorani was not always around, they said. Raul Santamaria, 55, who has lived in the building for four years, said he last saw Parvaiz two or three weeks ago, with a woman who was not his wife. 'He was divorced, or getting divorced,' Santamaria said." Others neighbors said that Noorani wasn't around as much and that they overheard their arguments.

The couple, who had lived in Brooklyn briefly (Parvaiz, a Brooklyn native, had run a contracting business there), had finished breaking the Ramadan fast and was walking from Noorani's sister's house to her father's house in Boonton, NJ to pick up their five-year-old son. Parvaiz's friend said, "Apparently someone was waiting for them. It wasn’t a robbery, from what it seems like. they didn’t ask them for money. They just hopped out and shot at them. They were looking to kill them." Parvaiz was hit by four bullets, while a lone bullet killed Noorani.

Parvaiz was reportedly robbed in Boston six month ago; the NJ authorities are looking to see if the shooting and robbery are connected.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 18, 2011 12:27 PM

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edgie168

damn she was hot.

JPeditor

she was murdered, you pig.

Peanut_Butter

Yeah, calm down, dude, she was hot.

edgie168

oink oink.

still doesn't change the fact in my statement, though.

Rocknrope

Hmmm. With the additional background, it certainly seems plausible that something foul was planned. Especially when you consider the bullet dispersion, she was shot 4 times, once near the heart. He was shot once in the shoulder and/or ankle.

I'll put away my pipe and magnifying glass now.

HymietownHero

You might want to take out your reading glasses, though.

Deceased wife appears to have been shot once, through the heart. Husband was shot four times in the shoulder and ankle, according to the story. That seems pretty strange if the shooter actually intended to kill the husband. I recognize that it is in extremely poor taste to speculate on these matters, but I'm gonna go with hired hit + alibi injury. The whole thing stinks.

TheTeaching CompanySeller

Let's not jump to conclusions here. This is the NYPost we're talking about, they're full of it. It's an interesting and plausible theory though.

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JPeditor

"This is the NYPost we're talking about, they're full of it"....

yada yada yada, more whining about the Post, omg, they don't always kiss Obama's ass, I'm gonna cry!

....Do you get paid to be a moron or do you do it for free?

Here's the same info from your sainted SeeBS: "Morris County prosecutor Robert Bianchi said the shooting appeared to be ”target specific,” adding “there is not a continuing danger to the general public at large.”

/farts in your general direction.