NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on police to investigate a possible bias motive in the fatal stabbing of a Muslim woman in Queens who was the aunt of an NYPD officer.
Police said they responded to an area on Normal Road in Jamaica on a report of an assault around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday.
When officers arrived, police said they found 60-year-old Nazma Khanam stabbed outside of a home. She was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The NYPD Muslim Officer Society said the victim is an aunt of an NYPD officer. The group tweeted out their condolences overnight, saying it was a member of their organization who lost a loved one.
CAIR-NY said Khanam was wearing Islamic attire at the time of the stabbing.
“Because of the recent killings of Muslims in Queens, and because of the growing number of anti-Muslim incidents nationwide resulting from the increasing Islamophobia in American society, we urge the NYPD to investigate a possible bias motive for this murder,” CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher said in a statement.
Last month, a man was charged in connection with shooting deaths of a Queens imam and his associate after they left a mosque in Ozone Park. Members of the mosque said the shooting was a hate crime, but investigators said the alleged motive is not clear.
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