Texas Dad Allegedly Lured Daughters With Supply ‘To Get One thing To Eat’ Earlier than Brutal Double Homicide

This week, the trial started in opposition to the person accused of killing his daughters again in 2008.

Yaser Abdel Mentioned was arrested for the alleged homicide of his two teenage daughters, 18-year-old Amina Mentioned and 17-year-old Sarah Mentioned, on New Yr’s Day 2008 in Irving, Texas. Mentioned, who’s now 65 years outdated, was suspected of the horrific crimes instantly after they occurred, however went into hiding and eluded authorities for greater than a decade.

The taxi cab driver was on the run for 12 years. Six years into the search, he was positioned on the FBI‘s Ten Most Wished Fugitives Checklist. In 2020, he was captured and arrested northwest of Dallas within the small city of Justin, Texas. Now, Yaser (pictured above, in his mugshot and strolling into courtroom this week) is lastly standing trial after being charged with the tragic killings.

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Testimony within the early days of the courtroom proceedings has been stunning and upsetting, as prosecutors replay the occasions that led as much as the horrific murders. In opening statements, prosecutors asserted Yaser allegedly shot his daughters inside his taxi cab exterior a resort in Irving after convincing them to go for a drive. Investigators claimed he instructed the ladies they have been going to a restaurant, and satisfied them to enter his cab “below the guise of taking them to get one thing to eat.”

As an alternative, prosecutors argued, he drove them to a resort in Irving and shot them within the automobile. Sarah was shot 9 instances, health workers later decided. Amazingly, although, she was capable of name 911 for assist — and she or he named her father because the alleged assailant.

Her phrases to the dispatcher have been profound:

“Assist, my dad shot me! I’m dying, I’m dying!”

Sadly, she died earlier than assist may arrive. Her sister Amina, who was shot twice, additionally perished on the scene.

The women had been college students at Lewisville Excessive Faculty within the Dallas space after they have been killed. Their father was reportedly enraged that that they had begun to this point boys. Per week earlier than their deaths, the ladies and their mom fled to Oklahoma to flee the person’s anger. This week in courtroom, prosecutors claimed to jurors that the ladies have been “very scared for his or her lives” after Mentioned allegedly “put a gun to Amina’s head and threatened to kill her” earlier than they initially fled.

Prosecutors claimed Mentioned later instructed the ladies he was a “modified man” and satisfied them to return residence. Days later, on the evening they have been killed, he allegedly lied to them in regards to the restaurant outing. After the murders, Mentioned fled. When he was found in 2020, his then-32-year-old son Islam Yaser-Abdel Mentioned was arrested and charged with conspiracy to hide an individual from arrest, concealing an individual from arrest, and conspiracy to hinder an official continuing. In April 2021, the youthful man pled responsible to the fees and was sentenced to 10 years in jail.

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Now, prosecutors try to persuade a jury that Yaser is responsible of the murders. The person has been charged with two counts of capital homicide and one rely of illegal flight to keep away from prosecution. If convicted, he’ll face an automated life sentence. Per MSN, he could face the dying penalty, as properly. He has pled not responsible.

Mentioned’s protection legal professional, Joseph Patton, used his opening assertion to argue that anti-Muslim bias “steered” the course of the investigation in direction of the ladies’ father. In response to KXAS-TV, Patton mentioned police have been “too fast” to concentrate on Yaser because the alleged killer, and added:

“It’s unsuitable for the federal government to generalize a whole tradition, criminalize a whole tradition, to suit their narrative, and to suit their goal. The state needs to convict Yaser for being Muslim in 2008.”

Right here’s the most recent on the continuing courtroom proceedings:

What these women went by means of on the finish of their lives is simply unimaginable. Our hearts…

[Image via WFAA/YouTube/Dallas County Jail]