Bridges TV founder and CEO Muzzammil Hassan and his wife Aasiya Hassan pose in this undated handout. -Reuters

NEW YORK The founder of a US television station aimed at countering stereotypes of Muslims has been arrested and charged with beheading his wife, local media reported Monday.

Muzzammil Hassan was charged with second-degree murder of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, whose decapitated body was found Thursday by police at the Bridges TV station in a Buffalo suburb in New York state, police told The Buffalo News.

He came to the police station at 620 pm (Thursday) and told us that she was dead, Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz told the newspaper.

Police reportedly went to Bridges TV, which Hassan founded in 2004, and discovered her body.
Orchard Park police told AFP there was a statement about the murder and arrest but would not release it or confirm any details pending contact with the police chief, who was unavailable.

Bridges TV said in a statement it was deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Aasiya (Zubair) Hassan and subsequent arrest of Muzzammil Hassan. CNN reported on its website that Benz said Hassan, confessed to beheading his wife.

Benz said Hassans wife, had filed for divorce January 6, and that police had responded to numerous domestic violence calls at the couples home, according to CNN.

He reportedly had two children, age four and six, with his wife, and two other children, age 17 and 18, from a previous marriage.