Guyanese woman bludgeoned to death in NY, husband held

A 39-year-old Guyanese woman was found bludgeoned to death in her New York, Queens home early Friday morning and her estranged husband is the main suspect and is now in police custody, a New York Daily News report has said.

Paigemattie Misir, know as Paige, was discovered bleeding from her head in a back room of her Queens Village home by her teenage son, the report said. She had only recently pried herself away from an abusive relationship. Her husband, 41-year-old Moore Yamin was taken into custody after their 16-year-old son, Clifton, told relatives that he feared his father had committed the murder.

The boy was alerted to check on his mother by her boss at a jewellery shop who became concerned when the 10-year employee didn’t show up for work on Friday morning.

According to the report Misir had obtained a restraining order against Yamin that prohibited him from contacting her.

Relatives reported that she filed for the order after the man attacked her on July 14, beating her and holding a knife against her throat as their 19-year-old daughter screamed for him to stop.

The newspaper said that in recent weeks, Yamin had been hounding Misir for money after she sold two properties, according to family members. She had given him US$75,000 after selling a Florida house, said her mother, Prakaash Misir of South Ozone Park, Queens.

The two met 20 years ago shortly after Misir’s family emigrated from Guyana. They have two children. Misir worked at Howard Jewellers in Jamaica.

The couple first split several years ago but reconciled and made a new start in Florida, the woman’s mother said. She said her daughter was shattered when Yamin began an affair shortly after the reconciliation.

“They were there nearly three months and he began to bring a woman into the house”, said Misir’s mother.

The paramour eventually moved in, she said. Misir returned to New York with the children.

It was stated that last August the woman bought a house on 212th Place and was renovating it. A “blessing ceremony” for the home was planned for tomorrow, said her brother Gopaul Misir, 36. “She’s the best sister you could ever want,” he said.

Her distraught mother said, “I am so shaky, I can’t talk. What can I do? I only have to ask God to guide her and protect her soul.”

And her 18-year-old daughter Sally Jaghroop was quoted on New York Eyewitness News as saying that she would “go and run anywhere for you, do anything for you, get anything for you,” “She wouldn’t say ‘I can’t go here.’ She’d drop anything.”