An Egyptian-American citizen is on trial in the United States for the murder of his two teenage daughters in 2008 after he managed to hide for 12 years, according to the nbcnews news site.
And Yaser Said, who was born in Egypt and was married to an American, is accused of shooting his two daughters, Sarah, 17, and Amina, 18, when they were with him in a taxi he worked on, in which suspected as a “crime of honor”.
Said disappeared after killing two girls and spent 12 years on the FBI’s most wanted list of fugitives until he was found hiding in Justin, Texas, where his 45-year-old brother Yassin was hiding, with the knowledge of his son. Islam, who was at the time of the incident, he was 19 years old.
Attorney General Lauren Black said during the opening of the trial of Yasser, now 65, that the two girls had previously eloped with their mother, Patricia Owens, about a week before the murder, as they were staying in suburban Louisville. Dallas, to go to Oklahoma to escape his father, who believes he wanted to get rid of two sisters after learning that one of them was having an affair with a young non-Muslim man. Black explained that the two girls “were very afraid for their lives after their father showed a gun and put it in his head,” adding that she then decided to run away from home and go with her mother to a safer place.
Said, however, then succeeded in convincing the two teenage girls to return home by making firm promises not to harm them and that he had changed, but, according to the prosecution, he committed his crime the same evening upon their return. In a letter written to the judge in charge of the case, Said confirmed that he was unhappy that “his two daughters were dating young people” but denied killing them.
Dafa’s attorney, Joseph Patton, stated during the opening hearing that there would be insufficient evidence to convict his client, noting that the police were “too hasty” in bringing charges against him and that “anti-Muslim sentiment played a role.”
Justifying Sarah’s 911 cell phone call to say her father shot her and she was dying, the lawyer explained that “in moments of extreme shock, people can hallucinate.”
In an email to a school history teacher a few days before her death, read by prosecutors during a hearing, Amina told her school that she did not want to live in the atmosphere of her father’s traditions and customs, and that she did not want to be associated with “a man from the Middle East,” adding, “I know what he (my father) will look for until he finds us and kills us.”
Among the evidence admitted by prosecutors in support of the father’s murder charge, the police contacted the owner of the taxi in which he worked and in which the crime occurred. The owner of the car confirmed that the defendant was driving the car. ten days before the crime. Black explained that the two sisters dreamed of becoming doctors, and that Yasser was “angry” that they had become more educated and independent, “undermining his control over them”.
The mother of the two girls, Said’s ex-wife, Patricia Owens, said in previous statements to The Dallas Morning News following the defendants’ arrest that she believed her two daughters were killed in a “feat of honor.” murder”, but she could not determine the true motive for their murder. “They were sweet, smart and helped anyone who needed it,” Owens said. “They were some of the most wonderful kids in the world and they didn’t deserve what happened to them.”
