'Freedom is just around the corner': Chilling texts sent between husband of murdered Muslim woman and alleged lover and gunwoman
A philandering Brooklyn dad hired a hitwoman to kill his wife as they were strolling with their 3-year-old son in New Jersey, a prosecutor charged Friday.
Kashif Parvaiz also tried to throw cops off by having Antoinette Stephen plug him with four well-aimed gunshots, wounding him superficially, police said.
But their plan was undone when Parvaiz broke under questioning - and cops discovered incriminating text messages between him and Stephen, court papers show.
"Within hours of the crime, we realized this was the handiwork of the husband," Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.
Parvaiz, 26, was hit with murder, endangering the welfare of a child, conspiracy and other charges in the Tuesday night shooting of his wife, Nazish Noorani. He was being held on $1 million bond.
Stephen, 26, was arrested Thursday night in Billerica, about 20 miles northwest of Boston. She was arraigned in Massachusetts Friday afternoon and ordered held without bail.
Parvaiz, who is Pakistani-American, initially tried to cover up his role in the conspiracy by making it appear they were victims of a hate crime, Bianchi said.
When cops arrived, Parvaiz said they were attacked by a white man, a black man and a third man whose race he didn't know. He said they hurled racial epithets and called them terrorists before opening fire.
Later, Parvaiz changed his story and said three black men jumped them, prosecutors said.
News of the arrests came as Noorani's relatives and more than 1,000 mourners held a wrenching funeral for the slain mom in Boonton, N.J., where much of her family lives. She was later buried in a plain coffin in Paterson, N.J.
The Brooklyn-born Parvaiz and Noorani, who was was born in Karachi, were married six years ago. It was an arranged marriage that produced two sons, ages 5 and 3, relatives said.
The younger son was with his parents when Noorani was killed. He was not hurt.
Under questioning, Parvaiz at first blamed his 27-year-old wife for the "issues" in their marriage, court papers revealed. He was mad at her "for allegedly speaking negatively about his family."
Later, Parvaiz admitted he cheated on her and claimed her death "was an accident." He said he didn't want to go to jail or "be the person to look at his children and tell them that he took their mother away."
Finally, Parvaiz admitted hiring Stephen to "kill the victim," court papers show. The price on his wife's head wasn't released.
Parvaiz met with Stephen in Brooklyn where they hatched the plan to kill Noorani on an after-dinner stroll. The heartless husband was planning to be in Boonton to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and have dinner with family.
Before the shooting, Noorani must have sensed something was up. In a text to her brother, she said Parvaiz had abused her and "scared" the kids.
"Someday u will find me dead but its cuz of Kashi," she texted. "He wants to kill me."
Parvaiz, a shady businessman who apparently conned relatives into thinking that he'd graduated with honors from Columbia University and was doing doctoral studies at Harvard, plotted his wife's murder for several days with Stephen, court records revealed.
They scoped out the killing ground and finalized their deadly plans by text, Bianchi said.
Before Stephen set off to shoot Noorani, she told Parvaiz to "Delete all msgs from phone," court papers revealed.
Parvaiz apparently didn't listen.
The accused husband owns a .9 millimeter Ruger handgun, but does not have a permit, cops said. It was not clear if that was the murder weapon.
Little was known about the relationship between Parvaiz and Stephen, who works at a Best Buy, but Noorani was not the only woman he pushed around.
Six months ago, Parvaiz was accused of beating up 20-year-old girlfriend Yelena Belorusets of Brooklyn in his Boston apartment. The assault and battery charges were dropped when she failed to show up for court.
Records show Belorusets lives in the same Brooklyn building that Parvaiz called home until he moved to East Boston.
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