UPDATED: Woman Charged With Fatally Shooting Estranged Husband At Bristol Park

Sammar Khan being led to a constable’s SUV Tuesday evening.
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com

UPDATE: 7:40 p.m.:

A 40-year-old woman has been charged with fatally shooting her 39-year-old husband in the stomach and head at Bristol Borough Waterfront Park.

Sammar Khan, 40, of Bristol Township’s Levittown section, came before District Judge Frank Peranteau Sr. at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday to be preliminarily arraigned on charges of criminal homicide, murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and reckless endangering another person. She was denied bail due to the homicide charge.

The charges were filed hours after Khan was taken into custody and her husband – identified as Faisal Iqbal, 39, of Levittown – was pronounced dead at the park along the Delaware River.

Gunshots ripped through the park near where locals often launch their kayaks by the marsh just before 10:55 a.m. Tuesday.

News of the homicide circulated through the close-knit Bristol Borough community. Residents came down to see the police presence and body covered with a white cloth.

Multiple witnesses, according to police, told investigators they watched Khan fire several gunshots into Iqbal, including a final shot to his head.

Detectives wrote in court papers that Khan, a mother of four kids who works part-time at Dunkin’, told them she went to the park to discuss the relationship with her estranged husband. The woman reportedly told investigators the meeting did not go well and she killed Iqbal.

According to a county civil court docket reviewed by LevittownNow.com, Iqbal filed for divorce from Khan in April. The case was in its initial stages.

Officers were called to the park at 10:53 a.m. for a report of shots fired. They arrived and found Khan with blood on her clothing, police said.

The officers then found Iqbal on the grass at the park and with gunshots wounds to the stomach and head, police said.

Witnesses relayed to police that Iqbal and Khan were talking along the beach when she was heard speaking loudly in another language. At that point, witnesses heard a pop and saw Iqbal brush his hand on his body. He then began to wrestle with Khan and additional pops were heard, police said.

Iqbal began walking toward the Mill Street Parking Lot and told a bystander to call 9-1-1. Khan then fired two more shots at Iqbal, causing him to collapse to the ground. She then raised the 9mm handgun as he laid on the ground and fired twice at his stomach and then once in the head, police said.

The Bucks County Rescue Squad responded and pronounced Iqbal deceased at the scene, police said.

A Bucks County District Attorney’s Office detective and a Bristol Borough officer interviewed Khan’s boyfriend, who said the two had been dating for more than a year. He stated he received a phone call around 10:53 a.m. from Khan where she asked him to pick up her son, who was at the park. She reportedly stated she killed Iqbal, police said.

Khan’s four children were in the custody of Bucks County Children and Youth following the shooting, officials said.

The gun on the bench.
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com

Khan and Iqbal were reported to have a tumultuous relationship.

Iqbal was arrested in April 2022 for violating a court order. He was ordered by Bucks County Court of Common Pleas Judge Stephen Corr to serve 60 days in county jail.