Singh has been charged with first-degree murder.
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Indian American Nitin Singh from New Jersey who was arrested last week for stabbing his wife to death had called 911 seeking help for his wife. According to the call recordings accessed by NJ Advanced Media, Singh, 46, called Salem County 911 on Tuesday and reported his wife Seema Singh, 42, was unconscious and not breathing properly.
When the operator asked him whether he knows how to do a CPR, he replied, “No, can you send help, please?” and the call was disconnected after a moment. Several calls made to Nitin Singh’s number subsequently were not answered and some of them even went to voice mail.
When Pennsville Town police reached Singh’s home in North Broadway, Seema Singh was seen lying in the kitchen in a pool of blood and Nitin was standing over her body.
The police took the couple’s three children – two boys, aged 16 and 6 and a 5-year old girl – out of the home for keeping them away from their mother’s dead body. The children were sleeping when the incident happened.
Nitin Singh was questioned by the police before arresting him and was charged with first-degree murder. He has been kept at Salem County Correctional Facility on $1 million cash bail.
The Police chief Allen J. Cummings said that Seema was stabbed 30 times on her face, chest, and abdomen. “This is a very horrific scene. It’s a situation where there are children involved and they have lost their mother and their father is probably going to be incarcerated,” Cummings said.
Seema was declared dead on the spot. The police have collected some kitchen utensils as evidence and sent to the state police lab.
Nitin Sing has also been charged with second-degree aggravated assault, fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and fourth-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, reported NJ.com.
According to the police, some sort of domestic dispute may have led to the murder.
The family members of the couple arrived from India and met the child protective service officials to proceed to take the permanent custody of the children who are staying with a local family. They also met Nitin Singh at Salem County Correctional Facility.