‘Target-Specific’: Pakistani Mother Gunned Down in NJ While Pushing Child in Stroller
- Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:10pm by
Jessie Abrams
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A 26-year-old mother was killed when gunmen opened fire in a small northern New Jersey town as she was walking with her husband and her 3-year-old son late Tuesday night, authorities said.
Bullets also wounded her husband, but the child remained safe.
Nazish Noorani and her husband Kashif Parvaiz, also 26, were on their way to a relative’s house with one of their children around 11 p.m. when gunmen opened fire. The couple had recently moved from Brooklyn to Boston so that Parvaiz could attend graduate school at Harvard University. Their other child, 5, was with a relative when the shooting occurred, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
Investigators are now saying the attack wasn’t random, according to a report from the New York Daily News, meaning it doesn’t seem the couple just get caught in crossfire.
The shooting “appears to be target-specific,” Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said Wednesday. Bianchi offered little else, but investigators are still looking into whether this was a biased attack.
Local officials, however, are unsure at this time if bias was for sure a factor. “We’ve had Muslims in the community for over 50 years and very few problems with hate crimes,” Boonton Police Chief Michael Beltran said.
The family is Muslim, and Noorani was wearing distinctively Pakistani clothing at the time of the shooting. The couple was heading to Boonton, NJ, a small town with a large Pakistani-American community.
The couple had an arranged marriage about six years ago. Noorani was from Karachi, Pakistan and her husband was born in Brooklyn.
Boonton residents are shocked. One man who lives close to where the incident happened said he heard six gunshots. That’s very unusual for the small town, others said.
“Nothing really happens here,” said Abbey Hettrich, a Boonton native. “It’s such an innocent town. I don’t think there has been a (violent) death here in a very long time.”
Relatives said the hardest thing now is explaining the tragedy to the two children. The younger child, who was in the stroller at the time of the shooting, is having trouble understanding what happened, they said.
Paraviz, the husband, remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds, but is in a stable condition. Relatives said Pervaiz graduated with honors from Columbia University and was studying for his doctoral degree in architecture and engineering at Harvard.
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Comments (131)
Omaof19
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:30pmThat is awful. There is no excuse for it. I went to Boonton High School and my dad lives in the next town over. You never hear anything like this from there. Guess it takes one nut case. We need to stop stereotyping. There are bad ones in every race.
Report Post »Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 12:30amThis could actually be another muslim only killing the woman, not injuring the child in the stroller, and injurying the man. Sure sounds like his aim was for her. The husband must have money to afford graduate school at Harvard and in this day and age still having an arranged marriage. A lot of big questions
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 1:06amMaybe is one of those Sharia things??? Funny the only one dead is the mother..
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 1:48amIn case you missed it, the father was shot several times. He’s lucky to be alive.
He’s also completely american in case you Headline skimmers missed that too.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:18amMy guess is, the shooter was a Muslim man “outraged” because the woman wasn’t wearing a burka and was showing her face in public. That would be typical of the “religion of peace”. But you watch the mainstream media turn this into an example of “Tea Party violence”, even though nobody KNOWS who did the shooting.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 4:02amI don’t think this has really anything to do with where she is from, though the media may spin it that way… racist radical tea partiers. But has to do with the violence that is happening in America, not just America but the world.
Here are a few examples from http://www.americanparchment.com:
US – Teen dies in drive-by shooting but doctors deliver son: ‘The baby (6 months) is fighting for his life’
US – Expelled teen charged in plot to bomb school
US – Police: Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union
US – Hackers break into BART police union Web site and post police names and addresse
Pak. – Christians Assulted for Watching ‘Jesus’ Film Near Bin Laden’s Compound
UK – London police charge 1000th person in riots probe
Ger – Vandals in Berlin torch 18 cars
SW – Youths attack police in Sweden overnight
But the idiot of the day goes to…
Report Post »US – Denver police catch robber fleeing in taxi
Im2Big2Fail
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 4:18amHey, I went Boonton High also, in the early eighties, Boonton is/was a small quiet town really, NJ is a cesspool now, glad I’m in TX!
Report Post »timeout
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 6:45ami am not going to assume it was a targeted crime against a muslim. however, any time anyone, of anyone variety, is walking down a quiet street with their family and is murdered it is a tragedy, and God have mercy on this country that is increasingly becoming violent….senseless, ruthless, shameful, violence. return to God Almighty. prayers are in order for the family and friends of this couple. and prayers are most assuredly in order for a smug, nasty society on the wild side! woe!
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 11:47amNY Post says it may have been a love triangle thing. Both are Muslim.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 12:18pmProbably one of those white terrorist Janet nobrainsatall has been warning us about.
Report Post »hud
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 1:40pmStop stereotyping? You are living proof that Ron White is right, you can’t cure stupid. It won‘t surprise me if the shooter is one of her kind that didn’t like her face being uncovered or some other mooslim BS. Check out the mob attacks how many whitey’s are perps. Answer: zero. Open your eyes, and do some thinking, the truth will set you free and prepare you to survive in the beautiful age of little o.
Report Post »Brae
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:28pmNo one should be gunned down while walking their kid in America. I could care less about what they were dressed as. This is totally sick. It’s not the American way, which makes me wonder about the shooter.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:27amIt’s a totally sick world we live in–with a great many advocates of the “religion of peace” ready and willing to do violence in the name of Allah. Yes, it IS sad and sick, but that is the world we live in today. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be gunned down by Jihadists, if the Jihadists can possibly manage it. You see what happened to Golda Meier and Anwar Sadat, whose only sin was attempting to bring peace to the Middle East.. But to the Jihadists, peace was a capital crime, punishable by death. Sick and sad, indeed, and I don‘t think it’s “racist” to say we don’t want or need these advocates of the “religion of peace” in our country. I’m not talking about the Pakistani woman who was killed, but the Muslim “nut cases” who keep doing these terrible things to everybody who does not agree with them.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 6:41am@ Teaparty grammy
Report Post »Golda Meir died of lymphatic cancer, she wasn’t assassinated like Sadat.. Just saying. I agree she was a great and formidable woman and one of the great socialists of her age.
Open Mind
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:04pmReligion of peace – yeah right.
Report Post »mutslie
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:15pmh’mmmm…maybe ’cause she took her hejab off? ‘damm sad though, sicko’s whoever did it.
Report Post »Rodster
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:54pmBush did it :p
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:54pmIn America? Tell me it ain’t so! People are being gunned down all over this planet in droves. USA better start taking notice and get the bums out of here before they kill us all.
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:50pmMy guess is that the crime will be traced to Muslim extremists.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:46pmI think it was right wing extremists, kind of like some Blaze readers. By the way Glenn wants nothing to do with all the haters, racists, bigots, and violence advocators on this site.
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:40pmI’ll second the ******* label for this *******
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:22amHe doesn’t want any part of moonbat trolls like YOU, either, so why don’t you STFU and go somewhere that your moonbat views are appreciated?
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 7:29amAs to U-BE-THE-CHANGE— ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ will BE the CHANGE—Check back in November 2012.
Report Post »DarkFire
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:45pmso they call this a hate crime. correct me if i am wrong but are not all crimes, hate crimes. look at it logically, i speed in my car down a road, why cause i hate the speed limit. i jaywalk across the street why, cause i hate the stupid assssss law that says i can only cross at the crosswalk. now those examples are dumbed down for the average reader. so lets get the noation out of our minds that one crime is a hate crime and another crime is not, there all hate crimes!
Report Post »smartgirl
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:28pmWe don’t have enough information to judge and, if it can’t be twisted so it can be blamed on white conservatives, we may never know what happened here. What we do know is that this beautiful young mother has been taken too early and my thoughts and prayers go out to her family.
Report Post »psst
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:06pmSmartGirl, smart post.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:31amAmen. You are well named, Smartgirl.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:24pmWherever they are from I can’t imagine that anyone would target this couple because of their race and to jump to conclusions regarding this shooting would be premature to say the least.
Something just doesn’t add up here. Especially since the husband was apparently robbed six months ago.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:36amIt could very well be some “protection racket” thing going on, and he didn’t pay the “tax” or whatever. That’s another charming Middle Eastern custom, that you later saw adopted by Mediterranean types like the Sicilians. Or she might have been “punished” because of her desire to further her education. There is no way to tell, but I‘d be willing to be it’s something like this. To me it is just sickening that this barbaric “sharia law” garbage and its subhuman, primitive adherents have gained a toehold in this country. This is America, and this 7th Century crap has no place here!
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:20pmNo mention of the suspects identity. It will be broadcasted as a hate crime until the identities of the suspects are revealed, and if they aren’t white then this story will vanish completely from the media. I’m guessing if they had been white then it would already be all over the news by now. So plan on seeing this story vanish.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:38amYou are probably quite right–that would be typical of the carefully-managed news coverage we can expect these days from our American Pravda and TASS.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:18pmThe bias today is unbelievable. When hundreds of black youth at a state fair can go on a rampage and single out anyone non black to beat them but the authorities say it is random and no evidence of a hate crime because there was no evidence anyone said anything specifically racial but anytime a “Muslim” get into some sort of trouble it is automatically labeled or investigated as a “hate” crime so that when they put out hate crime statistics they can artificially boost the numbers in the report and show the “increase” in Muslim persecution in the country which in turn will be the foundation to give Muslims more rights and protections and funding to do whatever they want in this country. Soon we will be like Europe where even the mention of disagreement about Islam gets you thrown in jail. This nonsense has gone on long enough. We have to close the door of immigration to this country, foreigners are the poison in the veins of our society and are destroying our country!
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:29pmThats because according to the US government and the media if you are caucasian then your not worth as much as someone of another race. Could you imagine if this happened to a black, elderly, handicapped, muslim illegal immigrant female who also happens to be homosexual. I think the liberals would all go into siezures.
Report Post »copper
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:21pmI agree. There was no indication that it was a HATE crime. If they have no suspects, how can they even guess. When they have the criminals actually tell them they were targeting whites they still refuse to call it a racially motivated hate crime. Get ready for the CALIPHATE kids, be the first on your block to join up or lose your head!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:43amI don’t agree about foreigners. This is a nation of immigrants, and except for the ones who were here originally, we are ALL “foreigners” here. But I do agree that we need to slam the door on these Muslim nut cases. I do not think it is “intolerant” to refuse to accommodate people who have made no secret of wanting to overrun your country and kill anybody who will not convert to the “religion of peace” or who does not agree with them. It seems only common sense to me, to look long and hard at ANY Muslim wanting to immigrate to this country. P.S. It is only a “hate crime” if it is committed by a white person against another race. Just like black people cannot be racist. That is a liberal law, yaknow, and one of their big articles of faith.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 7:14am@southernloyalty
I almost spit my coffee on the computer screen. Love it. I think you got all the liberal causes into one person there.
Report Post »diamondcutter
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:11pmsounds like an honor killing to me.
Report Post »Smug
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 8:02amYes, I’m a little skeptical myself. The story said the shooting was “target specific”. I think most people will think it was a hate crime. But I have a problem with that. Most people outside the muslim ideology understand that women are seen as victims of this belief system, causing most to be sympathetic to them. If a person was going to commit a “hate crime” seems to me they’re anger would have been solely targeted at him, thus making sure he was the one killed. And yet he’s in stable condition with gun shot “wounds” and his wife is dead. Along with the fact the story said “there have been Muslims in the community for over 50 years and very few problems with hate crimes,” This all sounds very suspect to me…………..MSSMUG
Report Post »touch
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:06pmSo sad…
One might think that with the ongoing economic devastation and the feeling that America is going down in more ways than one, that desperation is kicking in and terrible acts of Vigilantism are surfacing as a result. Keep your eyes peeled and head on a swivel folks.
Report Post »BobParker2003
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:57pmWhat is all of this Muslim connection stuff. Maybe i am wrong but I do NOT see any reference to this man being Muslim. Look at this woman. Have you ever seen a Muslim woman that looks this beautiful? My bet is she was Hindu. He might have been too.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:00pmYou are wrong….7th paragraph….read the article
Report Post »Shane the Golden
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:06pmHer looks would be the problem. Not in a body covering hijab (?) More LOVE from the religion of Peace.
Just Saying
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:53pmA terrible shame, but the real details are not yet known.
Report Post »Of course that won’t stop mslsd, and probably the whitehouse from turning it into a Tea Party plot by right wing “terrorists”.
They don’t report on the flashmobs, the black on white mass assaults, or anything objective about their chosen one…but this; I’m sure they dramatize this to the nth degree.
headbtweenlegs
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:47pmWhy Blaze? Be more like drudge
Report Post »ACgirl
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:44pmSomething just does not meld here. Why go after the father, did they mean to hit both children? Wanting to stop the next generation of? Something does not make sense here.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:42pmIt is a sorrowful thing when anyone is killed; but at least it was not an American in a Pakistani street “this time”. Most likely this guy came here running from someone, and mayge they just caught up with them. Other Muslums are not worried about shooting around children…..not a problem if they kill the wrong person.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:41pmThe planting of a new crisis?
Report Post »70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:41pmHopefully they will catch the perpetrators and they? get severe punishment. This has the MO of gang type shooting. Were the shooters in a car, building?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:38pmMaybe he shouldn’t have been wearing a Red Sox hat. Did anyone see if he insulted Rex Ryan lately, or maybe it‘s because we are a nation of cowards who won’t talk about race problems. Nah, I think Joe Biden was just mad because this couple wasn’t in a 7 eleven serving slurpies. C’mon Joe.
Report Post »cactusjoe
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:31pmI’m going with the love triangle theory. These are arranged marriages for the most part and that kind of culture mixed with ours is a breeding ground for infidelity.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:50pmYou can stop wondering, the article says it is an arranged marriage.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 7:16am@beekeeper
Yes, you’re right, it’s a tragedy when anyone is struck down like that. I was just struck by her youth and beauty. And I’m not gay, I can just recognize beauty.
Report Post »ACgirl
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:30pmWierd. Why would you be going to a relatives house with your child at 11 PM. I would not be doing that unless it was some kind of emergency. Something doesn’t make sense here.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:47pmOther cultures have different norms than us, who’s to judge? When my husband was stationed in Italy, he said the families didn’t eat until 9PM, ate in several courses, with their children, and would sometimes take them a couple hours to eat a full meal. Plus the children got wine at the table. Didn’t say the child in the stroller was awake.
It’s a sad thing that such a pretty woman would be gunned down.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:48pmI think you are correct. Did they get set up with a scare message and fled for cover?
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:51pmWhat if the 5 year-old was at the house they were walking to?
Are you thinking maybe they were out to commit crimes? Looking for trouble (with their three year-old in tow)?
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:53pm@loriann12 – It’s a tragedy when anyone is gunned down – man, woman or child…
Report Post »rtk
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:59pmThey were an easy and predictable target as is is not uncommon for Muslim families to eat their evening meal rather late dusin Ramadan which ends July 18th (this year ) if I am not mistaken. For a Westerner living in a Muslim country it is quite an adjustment in the workplace as employees do not eat during the hours of daylight and are quite ineffective by mid-afternoon.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:49am@ loriann12, who posted : “It’s a sad thing that such a pretty woman would be gunned down.”
I believe it would have been just as sad, had she been an UGLY woman. Murder is murder, whether or not the victim was alluring.
Report Post »VectorRector
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:42pmIsn’t it currently Ramadan? If so, people typically fast all day then take a late night meal. Could be they were on the way to a relative’s house for the meal…
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 9:19pmWhat a shame this is….a family so torn apart. I hope that the perpetraors are caught and pay for what they did.
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