The family of Antionette “Soni” Stephen yesterday described the accused female assassin as a lonely bookworm with no romantic prospects when she met slimy married man Kashif Parvaiz.
“He brainwashed her! He kept saying his child had sickle-cell anemia and how his wife was a bad mother,” said Stephen’s seething sis, Sandra. “He said his wife wanted money to go out and buy new stuff. She didn’t care that the kid was sick.”
The angry family of Parvaiz’s murdered wife, Nazish Noorani, said that neither of the couple’s sons has sickle-cell anemia and that she was a wonderful mom.
Antionette Stephen has been charged with fatally shooting Noorani — in a plot allegedly hatched by her and Parvaiz — on a New Jersey street last Tuesday evening.
“She’s scared and frightened,” Sandra said of her sister, whom she visited in a Massachusetts prison over the weekend. “She told us . . . she’s sorry she’s putting us through this. She’s repenting for having anything to do with this guy.”
Massachusetts authorities turned Antionette Stephen, 26, over to New Jersey cops yesterday, and she was booked into the Morris County jail.
Parvaiz, who was wounded in the attack on his wife, was released from the hospital yesterday and also sent straight to the jail, where he’s being held on $1 million bail.
Additional reporting by Josh Margolin