Woman, 40, shot dead in Manhattan street at 930am by her Canadian husband, 46, in murder-suicide 'wanted to divorce him and was secretly dating a co-worker at the bank where she worked'
A woman who was shot dead by her estranged Canadian husband in the middle of Lower Manhattan on Monday was planning to divorce him and had been secretly dating a co-worker for a year, it's been revealed.
Police said Xin Yu, 46, ambushed his wife, 40-year-old Min Ai, outside her apartment at Greenwich and Morris streets just before 9am as she headed to work.
The couple began arguing and Yu slashed Ai with a knife before fatally shooting her in the head and torso in the middle of the street, according to the authorities.
Yu then turned the gun on himself, suffering a gunshot wound to the head.
Xin Yu, 46, fatally shot his wife, Min Ai, 40, in the head before turning the gun on himself in a tragic murder-suicide in the Financial District of Manhattan Monday morning
Police and EMS responded to the scene at Morris and Greenwich streets at 9.18am
One witness said Yu still had the gun in his hand after he shot himself.
'I took the gun from his hand while he was still breathing. I just did it just to be safe. I took it really quick and put it on the ground next to my foot,' the woman said to the New York Daily News.
'I just did what needed to be done to make sure no one else got hurt. I really didn’t think about it,' she added.
At the time of the attack, Yu was carrying the couple's marriage certificate, according to police speaking to ABC 7 NY.
Ai was pronounced dead at the scene, while Yu succumbed to his injuries at New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital just 15 minutes later.
Police found Ai and her estranged husband, both suffering gunshot wounds to the head
Police say Ai was planning to divorce her husband and had been secretly dating a co-worker for a year
Ai claimed her estranged husband, who lived in Ontario, Canada, was mentally ill
Investigators said Ai was planning to divorce her estranged husband, who lived in Ontario, Canada. She had been secretly dating a male co-worker at a Broadway bank where she had worked for the past year.
Ai's boyfriend called the police on Monday after failing to reach the woman. He said that no one at the bank knew of their romantic relationship.
Sources told New York Daily Mail that Ai claimed her estranged husband was mentally ill.
It was unclear when he arrived in New York City.
