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Syeda Sohaly Akter

Case from Phoenix, AZ dated Sep 27, 2020

Victim Details

Syeda Sohaly Akter

Female

Asian

Phoenix

AZ

2020-09-27

43

Syeda

Sohaly Akter

Primary Suspect Deceased

07/07/2026

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In a tragic turn of events on a late September morning in Phoenix, Arizona, a domestic dispute ended in the death of 43-year-old Syeda Sohaly Akter. The woman, of Bangladeshi origin, was fatally shot by her husband in what police have described as a murder-suicide.

Earlier that Sunday, on September 27, 2020, Akter had called Phoenix police to her home near 40th Avenue and Baseline Road. She reported a verbal argument with her 52-year-old husband, Abul Ahsan Habib, and expressed that she w ...
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  • KNXV: Phoenix police investigating after husband, wife killed in murder-suicide in Laveen
  • Phoenix police find woman and man dead after domestic violence call
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