Muslim woman stabbed to death in Jamaica Hills

Police were investigating the fatal stabbing of a Muslim woman steps from her home in Jamaica Hills amid calls for the NYPD to look into the possibility the attack was a hate crime.

Officers responded to a 911 call Wednesday night at about 9:15 p.m., police said, to the front of 160-12 Normal Road. When officers arrived, they found Nazma Khanam, 60, unconscious on the sidewalk with a stab wound to her torso.

EMS workers took her to Jamaica Hospital, but she was pronounced dead on arrival.

According to a tweet from the NYPD Muslim Officers Society, Khanam was the aunt of an NYPD transit officer. The NYPD said preliminarily that the stabbing appeared to be an attempted robbery. The New York Chapter of the Center for Islamic American Relations urged the NYPD to investigate the possibility that the attack was a hate crime. They noted that Khanam was dressed in Islamic attire at the time of the attack.

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