A jury Tuesday convicted a Lewisville, Texas, man of murdering his 18 and 17-year-old daughters in 2008.
Yaser Said, 65, eluded capture for over twelve years and landed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most-Wanted Fugitives list in 2014 prior to his August 2020 arrest, The Associated Press reported. Amina had written in an email weeks before her death that she and Sarah planned to run away and she had no doubt he would kill them, according to the AP.
Prosecutors argued that Said, a Muslim, murdered them for living in western ways he found dishonorable, while his defense contended police targeted him for his religion following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The jury’s verdict followed three hours of deliberation, and Judge Chika Anyiam sentenced him to life in prison with no parole possibility, according to ABC News.
The prosecution did seek a death sentence for Said, but his ex-wife and the murdered daughters’ mother Patricia Owens said, “You deserve to die now, not in prison. You took my life. You took my family all in one night.”
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What advice did he get from male friends and family members, his imam, his wife?