Brooklyn Woman Convicted of Hiring Hitman to Kill Husband in Scheme to Collect $900K in Insurance Money

It took a jury less than three hours to convict a Brooklyn woman of having her husband knocked off to cash in on $900,000 in life insurance claims. Jurors on Thursday found Alishia Noel-Murray, 29, guilty of murder, attempted murder and weapon possession in the Feb. 23, 2013 assassination of her husband Omar Murray. “She’s a real monster,” Murray’s mother, Eunice Ashley Henry, 59, said after the verdict. Henry clapped her hands in prayer and looked up. "I’m ecstatic. I’m overwhelmed," she said. "But I’m still missing my son.” Noel-Murray plotted with her lover, Dameon Lovell, to hire a hitman for $3,500 to kill Murray so she could collect on three life insurance policies.

Lovell cooperated with prosecutors in exchange for 15 years to life in prison.

The alleged shooter, Kirk Portious, murdered Murray in their Lott Ave. home in Brownsville.