A woman dubbed the Wisconsin hitwoman or the hitwoman in a hijab was convicted Tuesday of attempting to murder a British storeowner in a 2019 plot that failed only because her gun jammed. Aimee Betro, 45, of West Allis, Wisconsin, traveled to the UK to carry out the attack, which authorities say was part of a violent family feud.
A Feud Turned Deadly
According to BBC News, Betro was hired by Mohammed Aslam, 56, and his son Mohammed Nabil Nazir, 31, after a 2018 fight at a Birmingham clothing shop owned by the victim’s father, Aslat Mahumad. Both men were injured in that altercation and allegedly sought revenge on Mahumad or his family.
Betro, who met Nazir on a dating app, flew to the UK in August 2019. On September 7, she confronted Sikander Ali outside his Birmingham home. Wearing a headscarf to conceal her identity, she pointed a 9mm handgun at him at point-blank range — but the weapon jammed, saving his life.
“[Betro was] a fairly unexceptional individual. On the face of it, a normal-looking individual, prepared to do an outrageous, audacious and persistent murder,” said Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Orencas of West Midlands Police’s major crime unit.
