Around the time, Sarah Said called 911 twice, stressing she was dying after her father shot her. He said he fled the taxi he was driving that evening because he thought they were being followed and someone wanted to kill him. Black said Sarah Said was shot nine times and Amina Said was shot twice. 'Honor Killings' Trial: Investigators detail how they found Yaser Said . Amina called and her mother asked her to come home, again Amina refused. On Monday, Said told jurors that he did not kill his daughters. The killings took place just days after Ms Owens had taken her kids and left Mr Said. 8 things to know about the trial for the man accused of killing Amina She told jurors about a conversation she had with a frantic Amina the day of the murders. Before she died, Sarah was able to call 911 and told the operator, "Help, my dad shot me! The potential key piece of evidence was admitted on day two of testimony, despite objections by the defense who previously cautioned jurors their expert will later testify that the 17-year-old victim may have been hallucinating after being shot nine times when she named her father as her shooter. Yaser Abdel Said's Wife Now: Where is Patricia Owens Today? A defense attorney for Said, however, insisted in opening arguments that his client was targeted because of his faithand that the calls to police only indicate that Sarah was in an extreme moment of trauma. Amina was 18 years old and was shot two times and Sarah was 17 years old as was shot nine times. The defense rested after the defendant's testimony. My dad shot me! He also told evidence on Sarahs body indicated she was shot at very close range. Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot praised investigators for their perseverance in tracking Said. She and the girls worked at Kroger, and her daughters started dating boys. 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She's spoken about why Yaser might have wanted to kill his daughters. The K9 was also shot once. The prosecution is expected to call more than 40 witnesses to the stand over the course of the trial. Patrica Owens, Yaser Said's ex-wife, testified before the jury Thursday morning and said why she fled her home with her daughters only to return days before they were killed. "Under no way, this is honor killing. Unfortunately unknown to Amina and Sarah and the boyfriends, their mother was talking to their father and planning on returning back to her husband. And he controlled everything in his household. The evening the sisters were shot, their father wanted to take just the two of them to a restaurant, she said. Patricia moved in with Saids brother after he fled upon killing Amina and Sarah. Prosecutors allege that after the murders, Said evaded authorities for 12 years, landing him on the FBIs Most Wanted List before he was ultimately found in 2020 hiding about 40 minutes away from the crime scene in Justin, Texas. The state wants to convict Yaser for being Muslim in 2008.. We took him into custody without incident., Reports at 4, 5 @NBCDFW Day 4 of Yaser Said cap murder trial.This Bedford apt maintenance worker is who IDd Said in 2017. The judge also allowed prosecutors to tell jurors about allegations that Said sexually abused his own daughters, who later recanted. Speaking through an interpreter in his native Arabic, Said testified someone else is responsible for the crime, but investigators never found that person because they only pursued him. Later, Said added he heard about an accident and learned that his girls had been murdered. He wanted me to go back to him and if I didnt go back to him, he threatened to kill me and my family, Ms Owens said, The Daily Beast reported. Said disappeared simultaneously with the girls' murders and eluded police and the FBI for 12 years before he was finally captured. Patricia Said now lives under her maiden name Patricia Owens. I could see a young lady who had her eyes fixed open and there was stuff coming out of her nose, said Watson. Owens, who visibly had trouble on the stand and has been diagnosed with PTSD and is on medication, said she met Said when she was 14 and he was 29. It is wrong for the government to generalize an entire culture, criminalize an entire culture, to fit their narrative, and to fit their objective, Mr Patton said in court on Tuesday, according to The Daily Beast. She gave birth to Amina, Sarah, and their brother Islam in the first three years of their marriage. Calling All True Crime Fans Said entered a not guilty plea Tuesday and faces an automatic life sentence if convicted. Patricia made call after call to Amina begging her to come home throughout the day saying her father had forgiven her and they were all going to go out to eat but Amina again refused. Patricia Owens, the mother of 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said, takes the stand on the third day of trial of her ex-husband Yaser Said at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, Yaser Said, 65, looks behind him during his first day on trial at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. "Her look was in fear, she didn't look like she wanted to be there," said Amina's boyfriend Edgar Ruiz. Authorities believe that the daughters were shot before 7:30 p.m. near the Omni Hotel. Cross examination is done with Patricia Owens (mom of Sarah and Amina) - who testified that when girls returned home days before their murders Yaser Said appeared happy; when Amina came back last . And this is not acceptable," Ahmed said. Said, who was arrested in August 2020 after more than a decade on the lam, has maintained his innocence and his lawyer has argued that he is being targeted by law enforcement for being Muslim in a post-Sept. 11 world. The judge warned Said that prosecutors would be allowed to raise any issue from the trial with him but he said he wanted to talk anyway. On Friday, that phrase took center stage. Both Sarah and Amina appeared at school with bruises, and at one point Amina even had a split lip. Gimenez detailed the local and global search for Said who was on the FBIs Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list before his 2020 arrest at a home in Justin. That revelation, in part, prompted Owens to flee the family home with her two daughters on Christmas Day 2007, packing clothes in trash bags and heading to Oklahoma. As per Patricia, Yasers brother told her, Yaser didnt want to raise whores as daughters. She also noted that one of the brothers said that Patricia was lucky Yaser left the bodies to be found so that the girls could be buried. Please join us in the fight for justice for Amina and Sarah Said by calling on the Irving Police to revise this case and interrogate Patricia Owens Said and Islam Said. Not long after that, the daughters withdrew their claims of abuse. His wife, Patricia "Tissie" Owens, told Fox News that her 63-year-old husband had become upset after learning that his daughters Amina and Sarah, ages 18 and 17, respectively, had started. On Wednesday, the prosecution played the 911 call allegedly made by Sarah on the night of her death. Day two of testimony ended with a former crime scene investigator who wheeled in a cart full of evidence including the bullet-riddled cab seats, shell casings and projectiles found throughout the car and photographs showing a shell casing found on Aminas shoulder. The defense is also expected to try to discredit Sarah's chilling 911 call, played before the jury on Wednesday, where she said her father shot her. I am very happy now. The father said he loved his daughters and is not to blame for their killing. The cause of death for both victims was listed as multiple gunshot wounds and homicide as the manner of death. Said still managed to escape, said FBI. Day two of testimony ended with a former crime scene investigator who wheeled in a cart full of evidence including the bullet-riddled cab seats, shell casings and projectiles found throughout the car and photographs showing a shell casing found on Aminas shoulder. Yaser Said, who had been sought on a capital murder warrant since the slayings, was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list. In a Dallas County courtroom, Patricia Owens saw her former husband and the father of their children for the first time in 14 years. They left all their phones behind so they couldn't be traced and finally left on December 25th after Yaser had left to go to work that night. "It is wrong for the government to generalize an entire culture, criminalize an entire culture, to fit their narrative, and to fit their objective. She said she urged Amina to return home on the day of the murders even though the teen said she feared for her life. Said, 64, has pleaded not guilty to the capital murder charge for the crime that his lawyers have insisted was only pinned on him because he is Muslim. At this time, you are nothing. This is murder. Texas father accused of fatally shooting his daughters. Texas father killed 2 teen daughters because he couldn't - MSN And this is not acceptable," Ahmed said. Black said the sisters, both high school students in Lewisville, dreamed of becoming doctors, and that Yaser Said grew "angrier" as they grew up and became more educated and independent. @NBCDFW https://t.co/X5svQKi9it pic.twitter.com/ZmIM6Lof1n, Prosecutors asked Owens if she had any idea what might have happened to her daughters when they left to eat with their father and she said, Part of me did. A member of the defence team claimed during opening arguments that Mr Said had been targeted for being Muslim, adding that all the 911 calls reveal is that Sarah was in extreme trauma. Yaser Said showed no emotion as cries for help played in court. If convicted, Yaser Said faces mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole. Amina and Sarah Said were murdered by their father Yaser Abdul Said an Egyptian immigrant on January 1st 2008. [ATTORNEY: "Did you comprehend what could happen to her?"] Yeah, I'm sorry," she replied. You do whatever you want since you know how to drive. He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date. Police allege these were honor killings committed by an abusive, controlling and possessive father who was angry his daughters dated outside their culture and had left home recently. In moments of extreme trauma, like being shot multiple times, people can have hallucinations, Patton said. Prosecutors presented an email Amina reportedly sent her Lewisville teacher days before her death, confiding that her father was arraigning her marriage so she and her sister were going to run away. Earlier this week, prosecutors played a recording of a 911 call placed by Sarah after she had been shot, but was still alive. The daughters went back to the area around Dallas on New Years Eve, following numerous calls from Mr Said and his brother telling them to come back. He wanted me to go back to him and if I didnt go back to him, he threatened to kill me and my family, Owens said, adding that Said stated he wanted to kill her after she filed the charges. A boyfriend was not permissible under his rules. When asked to identify her ex-husband in court, Owens raised her arm, pointed at Said and said, That devil there. She told jurors she and her husband had not spoken since the night their daughters were killed. The medical examiner found 1,500 milliliters of blood in Aminas right chest cavity, the equivalent of three water bottles. Silence filled Dallas County District Court 7 Wednesday as prosecutors prepared to present the chilling 911 call made by a dying Sarah Said on New Year 2008. "When they had more independence, that was less control for him," Black said. "I do not have first-hand knowledge of what an honor killing is. Patricia Owens, the mother of 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah. Irving Police Department not only refuses to bring charges against Patricia Owens, Islam Said or any of the bothers of Yaser Said but they didnt even care to officially interrogate them. Police allege these were honor killings committed by an abusive, controlling and possessive father who was angry his daughters dated outside their culture and had left home recently. The Crime Junkie podcast unravels all details of the case, but nobody quite knows what was Patricias initial stance about the alleged physical and sexual abuse meted out to Amina and Sarah. He will, without any drama nor doubt, kill us, the email read. Each girl, they said, had been shot multiple times. This story has been shared 685,769 times. I didnt ask my employees if they had seen him other than if theyd seen the driver from the cab," Watson said. When prosecutors asked Owens if she knew what would happen when they returned, she replied, Part of me did. The girls managed to run away of the home to their mothers job where the girls also had part time jobs. In a Dec. 21, 2007, email that was brought into evidence, Amina Said told a teacher that she and her sister planned to run away. Amina kept refusing to go with her mother and she wanted to go back to Tulsa. Sarah's boyfriend testified about why she kept their relationship a secret. "Yes," Owens said. Before she died, Sarah was able to call 911 and told the operator, "Help, my dad shot me! The judge is also allowing prosecutors to tell jurors about allegations that Said sexually abused his own daughters, who later recanted. "I was scared," Owens responded. Amina knew what could happen to her."] The state wants to convict Yaser for being Muslim in 2008," said Patton. When they were little, Amina and Sarah Said told their mother their dad abused them and they fledonly to return time and again to Yaser Saids control. Their bodies were later discovered inside his cab, parked outside of an Omni hotel. Mother of two girls allegedly killed by their father tells trial he She said that she didnt finish the process to get the order because they went back to Mr Said. Gimenez detailed the local and global search for Said who was on the FBIs Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list before his 2020 arrest at a home in Justin. In a letter written to the judge overseeing the case, Said said he was not happy with his kids' "dating activity" but denied killing his daughters. Part of me didnt.. @NBCDFW https://t.co/X5svQKi9it pic.twitter.com/ZmIM6Lof1n, Prosecutors asked Owens if she had any idea what might have happened to her daughters when they left to eat with their father and she said, Part of me did. Years later, on New Years Day in 2008, prosecutors allege that Said shot his daughters in an honor killing outside Dallas after learning they had begun dating and could no longer control them. The grisly execution came days after Owens and her daughters had escaped from Said, even successfully relocating to Oklahoma before returning to Texas after he reported them missing. DALLAS, Texas - Yaser Said was back in court on Thursday after an emotional day of testimony from some of the first membersof law enforcement to visit the murder scene of Said's two daughters. Police have described the murders as "honor killings.". Upon arrival Patricia tells her aunt the girls were going to run away with their friends and she couldnt let that happen, then Amina spoke up and said; "my mom said she always wanted to leave my dad so we let her come with us." Said entered a not guilty plea Tuesday and faces an automatic life sentence if convicted. Said, who has pled not guilty to capital murder charges, at times turned to one of the defense team and talking even as the chilling call played. She was soft-spoken on the witness stand, but her message about how she felt about her ex-husband was loud and clear when referring to him as the "devil. At one time, she harbored the fear that Yaser would return and kill her too. According to law enforcement, he shot the girls to. She commented, That was the day I lost my whole family and my life as I knew it was gone forever. "If the FBI did their work, they would know, but they were looking for Yaser Said and they did not do what they have to do," he said. Yaser was on the run for so long, and its hard to wrap my brain around it. I felt scared not to go back, Owens explained. Said is accused of murdering his two teenage daughters, Amina and Sarah Said, in 2008. Said disappeared and had not been seen for 12 years until his arrest in Justin by the FBI in August 2020. . Amina suffered two gunshot wounds, including a fatal wound to the chest. FBI agent Daniel Gimenez, who led the federal governments effort to track down Said, took the stand Friday afternoon. She never went through with the protective order, however, because she and her daughters went back to Said. The last time was fatal. Patricia Owens, the mother of Amina and Sarah Said, took the stand Thursday. In a letter written to the judge, Said wrote that he was not happy with his daughters dating activity but he denied killing them. Whether the girls were victims of an honor killing for allegedly bringing dishonor to their family has been widely speculated by loved ones and media since their murder in 2008. The father said he loved his daughters and is not to blame for their killing. Cross examination is done with Patricia Owens (mom of Sarah and Amina) - who testified that when girls returned home days before their murders Yaser Said appeared happy; when Amina came back last he kissed her on the forehead and shed a tear. We've received your submission. Yaser Said Honor Killing Trial Over Murder of Sarah and Amina Underway in Dallas HOMEPAGE Crime & Justice Chilling 911 Call Fingers Dad in Horrific Texas 'Honor Killing' Trial SMOKING GUN After. The death penalty is not an option in this case. Also called to the stand Thursday was the owner of the taxi cab. Investigators say Yaser Said murdered his two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, in 2008 in so-called honor killings for dating outside their faith. Is that correct? The father told the courtroom that he only wanted to take his two daughters to dinner on New Year's Day 2008 but on the road in his taxi, he said he saw someone following them. However, Patricia herself, who married Yaser when she was 16, spoke about how he beat her. "I did. Owens said the family moved to Bedford, and then to Lewisville in 2006. In moments of extreme trauma, like being shot multiple times, people can have hallucinations, Patton said. It is wrong for the government to generalize an entire culture, criminalize an entire culture, to fit their narrative, and to fit their objective, Patton said on Tuesday. Amina's boyfriend testified he and his father indeed saw Said and both girls in his cab shortly before the shooting and that they briefly followed them out of concern. FBI had been in touch w/apt management bc Saids son lived there. "Nobody said they saw him that night. Mother Testifies in Trial of Texas Man Accused of Killing His Teen And he controlled everything in his household, prosecutor says, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Mother of murdered girls calls ex-husband the devil in honor killings trial. After the verdict, Patricia Owens, Said's ex-wife and mother of the victims spoke directly to him in a victim impact statement. Patricia tells her daughters she had always wanted to leave their father and asked to run with them. Instead, she wanted to get out of the house at the time. Reports suggest that she's in Arlington, Texas, having resided in several places before - including Bedford and Lewisville. "They were the last people to see Amina and Sarah alive," he said. Sarah suffered nine gunshot wounds, mostly to her abdomen, according to the medical examiner. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, murdering his two daughters in honor killings, Pakistan arrests man in honor killing of teen daughter who rejected arranged marriage, Indian woman murdered, dumped in suitcase by parents for marrying a man from different caste, Honor killings trial starts for Texas father accused of gunning down daughters, Brother acquitted for honor killing of Pakistans Kim Kardashian. There's no such thing as an honor killing, you kill somebody there's no honor to it. The next morning, on New Years, Amina's friend received a text message from Sarah asking Amina to call her mom. The film furthers speculation the girls' father objected to his daughters living an "American lifestyle.". @NBCDFWhttps://t.co/R77vHTz043 pic.twitter.com/5eP4TqCGdS. It took just 20 minutes in court for Yaser Said testifying in his own defense to tell his story claiming he was not with his daughters when they were murdered. A detective and construction worker were among the witnesses called in the trial of Yaser Said this Friday afternoon. They will be sequestered in a hotel if deliberations continue for more than a day. It was the happiest moment he is caught, and justice can be served for Amina and Sarah.. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Ex-wife of Yaser Said testifies on day 3 of capital murder trial: 'I "The doorman told me there were a couple of people in a cab that were hurt really bad and that I needed to come out to the front drive," he said.

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