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Gujarati man charged with murdering estranged wife in Chicago
A 32-year-old man from Kadi in Mehsana district, Gujarat, has been charged with first-degree murder in Chicago for allegedly stabbing his 32-year-old wife to death. Chicago police found the woman with a…
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A 32-year-old man from Kadi in Mehsana district, Gujarat, has been charged with first-degree murder in Chicago for allegedly stabbing his 32-year-old wife to death. Chicago police found the woman with a stab wound to her neck in an apartment in Albany Park on August 9. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The accused was arrested about nine hours later at O'Hare International Airport.
The Times of India reports that the couple moved to the US eight years ago and have a five-year-old daughter. Relatives of the accused claim the wife left him twice for a younger man. The accused had sent the daughter to India days before the killing, and allegedly called his wife on the day of the murder asking her to take the child. In May, he had posted a video in Gujarati speaking of contemplating suicide after the woman first left him.
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The story plays into the lazy narrative of the 'spurned husband driven to tragedy', but the facts demand nuance. The Times of India reports the accused spoke of suicide after his wife left him, and relatives allege she left him twice for a younger man. Yet this is a first-degree murder charge for stabbing a woman in the neck. The concrete test here is the Chicago police investigation: will any history of domestic violence, beyond the accused's emotional video, emerge in court documents?
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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