An enraged Bronx man fatally stabbed the mom of his two daughters over the weekend as a result of he thought she was dishonest on him, in accordance with cops and a relative.
A toddler described as household was house on the time of the assault, though it’s unclear whether or not the teenager was one of many couple’s children, sources mentioned.
Khaleel Cooper, 39, is accused of knifing 40-year-old Tamara Rowe in her chest and proper arm of their sixth-floor unit on East 232nd Avenue close to White Plains Street in Wakefield on Saturday, authorities mentioned.
Rowe’s brother known as 911 when he discovered his sister’s lifeless physique throughout a wellness examine within the condo round 8:35 p.m. Saturday, police sources mentioned.
She was rushed to Montefiore Medical Middle, the place she succumbed to her accidents.
The troubled couple met in Jamaica, the place they’d their first daughter, who’s now 9 or 10, after which their second little one, now 2-and-a-half, within the US, in accordance with a feminine relative who didn’t need to be recognized.
Cooper had deliberate to start out a trucking enterprise – as his household had in Jamaica – however determined in opposition to it since Rowe wasn’t a fan of the concept, the girl mentioned.
Rowe in the meantime labored the night time shift at a Queens restaurant, and Cooper grew suspicious when a person introduced her house one night time, the kin mentioned. Rowe normally take MetroNorth – and she or he wasn’t calling Cooper as a lot, both, the relative mentioned.
“He felt like, ‘I ended my life for you. … You and I’d finally get married,’ ” the member of the family mentioned.
“He felt like she was sneaking round, and he didn’t prefer it,” she added.
Tensions got here to a head when Cooper claimed he put a recorder underneath the mattress and captured Rowe having telephone intercourse with one other man – however she denied this, in accordance with the relative.
“He advised me he beloved her a lot,” the member of the family mentioned. “He mentioned, ‘We don’t have any points.’ He was even crying, that’s how damage he was.”
Cooper was charged with homicide, manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a kid and prison possession of a weapon within the slaying, police mentioned.
He has no prior arrests, authorities mentioned.
His arraignment in Bronx Felony Court docket was pending Tuesday.
“We by no means thought it might be stabbing and killing,” the relative mentioned. “I’m unhappy that she’s not with us, however I really feel unhealthy for him too as a result of no one deserves that, the way in which she handled him, but additionally no one deserves to die.”
Now, the couple’s two women “misplaced every thing,” in accordance with the member of the family.
“They didn’t simply lose a mother, they misplaced their dad, too.”
