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AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
A glamorous model who shot her day-trader husband five times at an oceanside condo in Florida before turning the gun on herself was apparently worried he would divorce her over her infidelity.
Sabrina Krasniqi, 27, gunned down Pajtim Krasniqi, 34, on the 45th floor of the Beach Club II Hallandale luxury condo tower overlooking Hallandale Beach, north of Miami, at about 12.30am on Wednesday.
The couple's bodies were later seen lying on the balcony next to apartment 4508, as police searched inside and blood dripped over the edge onto lower balconies.
Pajtim's brother, Arben 'Benny' Krasniqi, now says the family had their concerns about Sabrina even before the shooting.
'We saw plenty of signs, and now everything makes sense,' he told the New York Post. 'But they were in love and never in a million years did we think something like this could happen.'
He then revealed that Sabrina had admitted to Pajtim that she cheated on him.
'She came to a point of guilt or something that she just could not take,' Arben said.
'My brother wanted a divorce, and she didn't take that lightly. And she decided to take her own life and somewhere along the line, she decided to take my brother's life.'
Neighbors have also said they heard vicious fights coming from the couple's condo in the weeks leading up to the murder-suicide, saying they would argue on the balcony and inside their unit, the Post reports.
But one neighbor, who considered himself a friend of Pajtim, told Local 10 News he thought everything was fine in their relationship.
'Every time I saw them or they went in the pool, everything seemed like they were great,' the unidentified neighbor said.
'Everybody's just in shock.'
Police have said they were alerted to the crime by an alert from ShotSpotter, a gunfire detection program, and rushed to the scene to find the couple dead.
'Advising that both people are down on the balcony. Female on her back, one male on his face on the balcony,' a dispatcher was recorded saying by Broadcastify.
Footage of the police investigating showed a teddy bear, a box of roses with a heart on it, and the TV still blaring.
Aerial footage also showed what looked like bullet holes in a glass door of the condo, with pools of blood nearby.
Both Sabrina and Pajtim were pronounced dead at the scene.
Sabrina was previously featured in a 2021 report by Inside Edition where she walked around Times Square in NYC to see how many men would catcall her if she was wearing a mask.
'It's kind of disturbing because I don't feel safe and I don't feel comfortable... It just makes you have the heebie-jeebies,' she said.
'That would be the last guy I would ever go on a date with.'
The following year, they moved away from their families in New York to the Florida condo.
Whenever Pajtim would return to the Big Apple, he would make sure to visit everyone in his large Albanian family that immigrated to the US from Peja in Kosovo. He was the only one of his siblings born in the US.
'He made time for everyone and he brought us all together,' said his eldest sister, Ardiana. 'That's why everyone loved him.'
Patjim's other sister, Albana Krasniqi Munrett, added that their mother was left 'devastated' by his death.
'That's her baby. He called her every day. He treated my mom like gold,' she said.
Pajtim's family remembered him in the aftermath of the shooting as a devoted brother, son, uncle and friend with a love of life 'that few could ever hope to replicate.
'He was a fighter. He was one of the mentally toughest people I have ever had the privilege of knowing,' the said in a joint statement.
'After sustaining a devastating motorcycle accident in 2018, he was determined to not allow the doctors to amputate his leg, despite all the evidence this was the best path forward.
'Knowing full well saving his leg would lead to multiple surgeries, pain, and long recovery times, he met the challenge head on.
'He further disregarded doctors orders and refused to take his pain medication during each of his surgery recoveries as he refused to become addicted to the medications.
'Facing unfathomable odds and despite those multiple surgeries and long healing times, he never complained. He never acted out. He took it all in stride.
'His strength and determination was infectious to those of us who knew him and will forever be a source of strength and pride for our family.
