A 31-year-old woman was found stabbed to death inside her Far Rockaway home on Wednesday, with police saying she suffered multiple stab wounds throughout her body. A person of interest has been taken into custody, though no charges had been filed as of the latest report.
Pheona Premraji was discovered at around 11:52 a.m. at her home on Neilson Street near Dinsmore Avenue, according to New York Daily News. Police reported that she had been stabbed to death at her Queens apartment, and a law enforcement source told the outlet that the stabbing took place during a domestic assault.
The person of interest taken into custody in connection with the killing has not been charged, the same law enforcement source said. Investigators have not released further details about what led up to the stabbing.
A String of Recent Queens Stabbings
Premraji's death adds to a string of fatal and near-fatal stabbings reported across Queens in recent months. In July, officers from the 101st Precinct responded to a 911 call at 10:42 a.m. at 22-38 Nameoke Avenue in Far Rockaway, where they discovered the body of a 61-year-old woman, according to The Wave.
In September, a woman was found dead with a stab wound to her arm inside a two-family home in South Ozone Park, with her body discovered by another resident inside the home on Rockaway Boulevard near 145th Street around 2:40 a.m., per the same New York Daily News account. A separate report from amNY described a woman found dead from multiple stab wounds inside another Queens home on a Tuesday morning, while Gothamist reported that police did not immediately consider a different woman's death suspicious after she was found with stab wounds inside an abandoned house.
What the Broader Data Shows
Statewide figures from New York's Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence show that over the last 25 years, 61% of female homicide victims were killed by their intimate partners. Separately, a state criminal justice data portal notes that New York City's domestic-violence statistics are built from the top charge of a reported complaint along with relationship and intimate-partner information collected through the NYPD's crime-reporting system, which tracks both felony and non-felony assaults.
Investigators have not disclosed a motive, the weapon used, or whether there were any witnesses to the attack.
