October 27, 2026 - 1:33 pm

A woman accused of fatally stabbing her husband told police the couple was attacked by two knife-wielding masked burglars.

But police said her story did not align with statements from a neighbor who reported seeing her husband alive a day after the woman said the attackers broke into their central valley apartment.

Naima Ahmadi , 53, was arrested Thursday and charged with open murder in the death of her husband, 77-year-old Ekufe Ebrutu. Ahmadi called police for help that morning, saying that she and her husband had been attacked two days earlier.

A neighbor told investigators he saw Ebrutu rummaging through a gray filing cabinet in his garage a day after Ahmadi said the attack occurred on the 6700 block of Del Rey Avenue, near Charleston and Rainbow boulevards.

Video surveillance provided by another neighbor did not show anyone arriving at or leaving the apartment during the reported attack, according to police.

Ahmadi told police she lost consciousness for nearly two days…