Investigators returned Monday to the Wakefield apartment building where 40-year-old Tamara Rowe, a Jamaican immigrant and mother of two, was fatally stabbed Saturday night in what police describe as a domestic violence homicide.
According to police sources, Rowe’s boyfriend stabbed allegedly her in the chest and right arm during a domestic dispute. Surveillance footage shows him fleeing minutes before police arrived. His identity remains officially undisclosed as of Monday.
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A sibling of one involved individual alerted authorities to the violence. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Neighbors revealed Rowe was pursuing her green card while working at a Queens restaurant. The Jamaican native had previously worked in the credit department at The Gleaner’s Kingston offices before immigrating to New York.
Multiple neighbors expressed surprise, noting they’d never detected trouble between Rowe and her partner
Authorities awaited a search warrant Monday to retrieve cellphones from the sixth-floor crime scene at East 232nd Street. Rowe’s two young daughters’ current whereabouts remain unclear.
The killing has sent ripples through both her Bronx community and Jamaican diaspora, highlighting the tragic intersection of immigration struggles and domestic violence.
