Beginning of the trial of Yaser Abdel Said, the father who killed his two daughters in “honor killing” in Texas

This Tuesday opened the trial for the aggravated murder of Yasser Abdel Said, a Lewisville resident taxi driver who spent more than 12 years on the run after being charged with the murder of his two teenage daughters.

Said had been on the run since 2008 after police said he took her daughters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, for a bite to eat on New Years Day.

Investigators said he put the girls in his taxi and left his house at Lewisville in Irving, where he allegedly shot them both as they sat in the car.

The girls, who were students at Lewisville High School, were allegedly shot multiple times. According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, the girls alleged that their father he sexually and physically abused them and pointed a gun at Amina, threatening her life, after learning she had a boyfriend.

A film about the murders, The Price of Honor, alleges that the girls were killed by their father as an “honor killing”, a cultural practice in which someone he is killed after shaming his family.

The film fuels speculation that the girls’ father was opposed to his children living an “American way of life”.

In August 2020, Said was arrested in Justin and two members of his family were arrested in Euless. Relatives have been identified by the Dallas FBI as Said’s brother, Yassein, and son, Islam. Both men have been charged with harboring a known fugitive and are currently serving time in federal prison.

Yassein was convicted in February 2021 of conspiracy to conceal a person’s arrest, concealment of a person’s arrest, and conspiracy to obstruct official process and was sentenced in June 2021 at the age of 12.

His nephew, Islam, brother of Amina and Sarah and son of Yaser, pleaded guilty to the same charges in June 2021 and was sentenced to 10 years.

Patricia Said, Yaser’s wife and mother of the victims, told NBC 5 in 2009 that she was initially angry with God for allowing her daughters to be killed, but that anger was later redirected to her husband. , whose whereabouts were unknown.

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