An Egyptian immigrant father in the United States, killed his two teenage daughters in 2008 in the state of Texas, then managed to escape and remained a fugitive from justice for 12 years, until they arrested him in 2020 and tried him, and yesterday a court convicted him of their murder, and life imprisonment.
It is Yasser Abdel-Fattah Saeed, 65, who committed an “honor crime” in which he killed his two daughters: Amina, who is 18, and Sarah, who is a year younger than her, which is what Al-Arabiya.net had previously reported when they arrested him in August 2020 after he was arrested. The FBI classified him as one of the 10 most wanted men, for killing his two daughters on the last night of 2008, by shooting them, until they managed to arrest him.
The two sisters were found murdered in a taxi that their father was driving and that was parked near a hotel in Dallas on New Years Day, but Sarah, who survived for a while, called the emergency service and reported that her father had shot her and that she was dying, but she and her sister had died. before the police arrived.
A week before their deaths, the two girls, accompanied by their friends and mother, left the family home in the Dallas suburb of Louisville, fleeing the father, because they were afraid for their lives, after he pointed a gun at Amina and threatened to kill her, according to Attorney General Lauren Black, in her explanation. What he did, and according to what we also hear in the video below.
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In a letter to the judge before the trial, Saeed wrote that he was dissatisfied with his two daughters’ “dating” of two men, but denied killing them. However, the court convicted him of premeditated murder and sentenced him to prison without parole, while the prosecution did not request the death penalty.
How did he commit his crime?
And the summary of his crime, that in 2008 he took his two daughters on New Year’s Eve, to take a trip in a “taxi” car he was working on, under the pretext of eating, but he took them to Irving, Texas, and shot them dead, but Sarah managed before she breathed her last to call a phone Emergency calls for distress, so a patrol arrived and found the two sisters dead, in what was considered a double honor crime, after which their son Islam, as well as his brother Yasser, were arrested, on charges of helping him evade arrest.
As for the mother of the two victims, his American wife Patricia Owens, before her separation from him because of his crime, she told the local newspaper, “The Dallas Morning News”, that she was very comfortable with his arrest, and that she had no idea where he was, and despite public speculation about the motive, “I don’t know.” The reason why my two daughters were killed, they were smart and loving to everyone, helping anyone. They didn’t deserve what happened to them at the hands of their father,” she said of her two daughters, who were both high school students, and ended up dead in a taxi.
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