Chicago hitwoman used hijab disguise in botched contract killing: report
A female hitman from Chicago used a hijab to disguise herself in a botched contract killing of a boutique clothing shop owner in England, prosecutors reportedly said.
Aimee Betro, 44 — who was at large as her accomplices were convicted in Birmingham court last week — donned the traditional Muslim head covering as she allegedly tried to take out her target on the street in September 2019, according to the UK Telegraph.
Betro slipped out of a Mercedes in suburban Birmingham and aimed a gun at victim Sikander Ali as he pulled up to his home in an Audi — but the weapon jammed, said prosecutor Kevin Hegarty.
“She walked quite calmly towards Sikander Ali and was pointing a gun at him at head height,” Hegarty told the court. “She pulled the trigger to fire the gun at him. Mercifully and luckily for him the gun jammed.”
Ali quickly reversed his car and managed to escape — but the bumbling assassin returned to the house the next morning, prosecutors said.
Betro, who was hired by Mohammed Nazir, 30, and his father Mohammed Aslam, 56, took a taxi back and allegedly fired three shots in the direction of the home.
‘‘Where are you hiding?’” she allegedly shouted.“Stop playing hide and seek.”
But her second murder attempt failed too, the paper reported.
The alleged contract killer then fled back to the US two days later and is still at large, the paper said.
Nazir and Aslam, of Derby, held a grudge against Ali and his family after a dispute at their clothing store that left them injured in 2018.
They were both found guilty of conspiracy to murder last week and will be sentenced on Aug. 9
