The Levittown woman who stood over her husband at the Bristol Wharf, after shooting him twice and fired her last shot into his head, killing him in the late morning hours of May 30, 2022, agreed to enter a guilty plea to third degree murder Wednesday.
Sammar Khan, 42, of Levittown, appeared before Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey L. Finley to enter the open guilty plea in the killing of her husband Faisal Iqbal. She also pleaded guilty to possession of an instrument of crime, and recklessly endangering another person.
Bristol Borough Police escorting Sammar Khan into Bristol Borough District Court for her Preliminary Arraignment on May 30, 2022 on Murder Charges Credit: Joe Nelson
Witnesses told detectives from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the Bristol Borough Police Department that Khan and Iqbal had been talking near the coastline. Witnesses reported hearing Khan speaking loudly in another language, followed by a “pop” sound. Iqbal, who had been seated, stood up and began wrestling with Khan as additional gunshots were heard. The two then walked toward the parking lot, where Iqbal reportedly told a witness to call 911. Witnesses observed Khan shoot Iqbal two more times, causing him to collapse. As Iqbal lay on the ground, Khan allegedly walked over to him and shot him twice more in the torso and once in the head.
Within hours of the very public killing, Lower Bucks Source readers recognized the victim’s name once his name began to circulate The suspect’s victim,/husband, according to Bristol Township Police press releases, violated Protection from Abuse orders in March of 2022, and April 2022. He was arrested and jailed. Both violations occurred at the suspects home on Freedom Lane, in Levittown. Serving 26 days in Bucks County Prison.
The killing in a much beloved and visited open public space shook Bristol to the core, only days after Tyler Sullivan shook his infant son to death, the week prior. Sullivan pled guilty last year to killing his son and was sentenced 15 to 30 years in state prison.
The two killing within the confines of Bristol Borough in under a week’s time, just as outdoor event season was kicking into high gear, is in the opinion of some one of the worst weeks in the borough’s existence.
Khan will be sentenced on September 30 by Finley.
Frank Lombardi
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 pm
🧠 I Lived Through the Collapse: A Witness to Deinstitutionalization and Its Consequences
I didn’t read about it in a textbook. I lived it. I watched the doors of Byberry Hospital close, and I saw what spilled out into the streets. Men and women—many of them deeply ill—were suddenly left to fend for themselves. One day, I saw a man beating himself on a street corner. No one stopped. No one helped. That was the moment I knew: something had gone terribly wrong.
Deinstitutionalization wasn’t just a policy shift. It was a rupture. Families collapsed under the weight of untreated mental illness. Children grew up in chaos—no structure, no safety, no hope. I saw it firsthand. These weren’t isolated cases. This was a wave of dysfunction that swept through neighborhoods, schools, and cities.
And then came the politics. I watched as vulnerable people—many of them homeless, mentally ill, or addicted—were courted for votes. I saw democrat politicians hand out $20 bills near polling stations in Philadelphia. It wasn’t subtle. It was transactional. These weren’t civic moments—they were acts of desperation and manipulation.
Today, we live in the aftermath. The dysfunction didn’t disappear. It evolved. It became generational. The children of those abandoned by the system are now adults—many still struggling, many still voting for the same promises that never materialized. And the cycle continues.
I’m not here to play partisan games. I’m here to say: I saw it. I lived it. And I won’t forget it.