New York: Police on Saturday nabbed a 22-year-old man suspected of stabbing a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer’s aunt to death in a Queens robbery, reports New York Daily News.

Detectives arrested Yonatan Galvez-Marin in the Jamaica Hills neighborhood, where 60-year-old Nazma Khanam’s grief-stricken husband found her bleeding on a sidewalk near their home on 31 August.

Police said Galvez-Marin made statements implicating himself in the stabbing of the Bangladesh-born woman after she refused to hand over her money along Normal Road near 160th St.

The suspect lived on the road where the incident took place, about two blocks south of the Khanams’ home on 161st St, said the New York Daily News report.

Khanam and her 75-year-old husband, Shamsul Alam Khan, had been walking home after closing their Jamaica Ave. souvenir shop for the evening. Khan, who suffers from asthma, stopped to catch his breath and let his wife go on without him.

Galvez-Marin confronted Khanam at around 9:15pm, after she got ahead of her husband. Khan heard his wife of 45 years scream before finding her mortally wounded.

A funeral service was held for Khanam at the Jamaica Muslim Center on Friday, ahead of her planned burial in Bangladesh.

Family members decried the killing as a hate crime, noting that no personal possessions were taken during the fatal assault.