This is murder. She took all three children and left him for months, before returning and telling the girls to recant their story. 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. Patricia Owens, YaserSaids former wife, had not seen him since New Years Day of 2008 when he took their daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, to dinner and insisted on going alone so they could talk. Theres someone in the back as well.". 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. Both Sarah and Amina appeared at school with bruises, and at one point Amina even had a split lip. You are a prisoner and a murderer and the devil.. Patricia Owens, the mother of Amina and Sarah Said, took the stand Thursday. More than 50 people were called to testify, including the girls' mother as well as local and federal investigators and experts on Muslim culture. The suspect shot the officer in the leg and shoulder. After the 2008 killing, Patricia Owens, Yaser Said's former wife, told FBI agents that Yassein Said made statements to her indicating he had little remorse for the victims, but indicated. You do whatever you want since you know how to drive. The next morning, on New Years, Amina's friend received a text message from Sarah asking Amina to call her mom. The death penalty was not an option in this case. She commented, Now the girls can rest in peace. After six years, Yaser Said is still at large. On Thursday, the mother of Amina and Sarah Said took the stand. The server is misbehaving. "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. FBI had been in touch w/apt management bc Saids son lived there. But long before 2008, Owens testified, she and her daughters were abused by Said. I left the car for them," he said. Said, an Egyptian immigrant, is accused of killing his daughters Amina, 18 and Sarah, 17, because they were "too American." His wife, Patricia Owens, previously told Fox News that Said had. Before she died, Sarah was able to call 911 and told the operator, "Help, my dad shot me! A short time later, the sisters were found shot to death in the cab in Irving. And this is not acceptable," Ahmed said. During opening statements Tuesday morning, prosecutor Lauren Black said Said was "obsessed with possession and control.". 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. Yaser Said was convicted of capital murder Tuesday in the 2008 fatal shootings of his two teenage daughters, 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said. But, Black said, in another act of "control" and "manipulation" by Said, he told them he had changed and convinced them to return home. "I told them the car is yours. In moments of extreme trauma, like being shot multiple times, people can have hallucinations, Patton said. She added that she and the kids left Said several times over the years, but always came back. It wasnt until December 2007, however, when prosecutors allege Said put a gun to Aminas head and threatened to kill her, that the teenagers and their mother began to hatch their plan to escape shortly before Christmas. In a letter written to the judge, Said wrote that he was not happy with his daughters dating activity but he denied killing them. A film made about the murders, "The Price of Honor," alleges the girls were killed by their father as an "honor killing," a cultural practice where someone is killed after bringing shame on their family. La personne qui a lanc cette ptition a dcid d'agir. Reports suggest that shes in Arlington, Texas, having resided in several places before including Bedford and Lewisville. The medical examiner found 1,500 milliliters of blood in Aminas right chest cavity, the equivalent of three water bottles. Even then, Amina refused to go back to the house, fearful of the repercussions. Where is Patricia Said Today? "It is wrong for the government to generalize an entire culture, criminalize an entire culture, to fit their narrative, and to fit their objective. One such time was when the abuse allegations were revealed in 1998. He also told evidence on Sarahs body indicated she was shot at very close range. Detective Kevin Hubbard, a dispatch supervisor, and the Irving Fire Department tried to get information from the unidentified caller but couldnt. I felt scared not to go back, Owens explained. Prosecutor Lauren Black has said Said was obsessed with possession and control.. He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if theyand who theycould date. Said refused to look up as two medical examiners who conducted the victims autopsies took the stand and described photographs of each victims examination displayed in the courtroom. Prosecutors allege that Said eventually lured his daughters into his taxi, where Amina was sitting in the front passenger seat and Sarah was in the back. Ms Owens said during the third day of testimony in the trial that Mr Said would insist on deciding on where they would live and who they would speak to. The father said he loved his daughters and is not to blame for their killing. I left the car for them," he said. I didnt think anything would happen, she testified. In August 2020 Said was arrested in Justin and two relatives were arrested in Euless. Were here to offer condolences, continued condolence to this family, but were also here to see that justice is done which it was, Creuzot said. Chief Dallas County Public Defender Brad Lollar said the conviction will be appealed. [ATTORNEY: "Did you comprehend what could happen to her?"] But the prosecution's questioning of law enforcement showed the evidence pointed to Said, who disappeared the night of the murders. A Fort Worth man and his family say they are terrified and angry after the FBI originally posted his photo and identified him as the suspected shooter that killed five people near Houston Friday night. And he controlled everything in his household. 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. They then moved to another area, closer to Ms Owens sister. 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. Clearly the proof is in the pudding and this is a double Honor Killing and the F.B.I. Owens testified that she and the girls had just returned to their home in Lewisville, Texas, from Oklahoma, where they had gone to get away from Said. His defense said no one will testify they saw Said at the crime scene, adding police should have investigated the girls' mother or Amina's boyfriend. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of capital murder. Investigators say Yaser Said murdered his two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, in 2008 in so-called honor killings for dating outside their faith. "Theres almost 24 hours we dont know where that cab went," he said. Either way, she failed to protect her daughters. 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. https://t.co/dxERwZ2CM6. Patricia Owens called her ex-husband Yaser Said the "devil" for allegedly murdering their two daughters at his trial in Dallas on Aug. 4, 2022. Owens said on the day her daughter returned Yaser appeared happy and he kissed her on the forehead and shed a tear. The prosecution is expected to call more than 40 witnesses to the stand over the course of the trial. The cause of death for both victims was listed as multiple gunshot wounds and homicide as the manner of death. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Amina Said was born March 2, 1989. Patricia Owens, the mother of Sarah and Amina Said, takes the stand in the trial of Yaser Said Owens came face-to-face with her ex-husband for the first time since prosecutors say he. Said spent six years on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List before he was arrested in Justin in August 2020. [ATTORNEY: "Yaser is apparently very happy to see his daughters again."] Amina gives in and goes home with her mother and within a couple hours Amina and Sarah were shot to death by their father. Hotel employee Nathan Watson testified about the moment a taxi cab driver reported seeing two injured people in the cab lane of the hotel. In a Dallas County courtroom, Patricia Owens saw her former husband and the father of their children for the first time in 14 years. Im dying, yelled a frantic woman identified as Sarah. Dr. Brasheer Ahmed, with the Muslim Community Center in North Richland Hills, told NBC 5 in 2020, following Said's arrest, that murder was against Islamic principal. The judge also allowed prosecutors to tell jurors about allegations that Said sexually abused his own daughters, who later recanted. 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. 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 . @NBCDFWhttps://t.co/R77vHTz043 pic.twitter.com/5eP4TqCGdS. If it were him, hed have made the bodies disappear. She said she urged Amina to return home on the day of the murders even though the teen said she feared for her life. If convicted of capital murder, Said would automatically be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors claim Said's daughters made an outcry that he'd sexually abused them and had touched them inappropriately. (FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth) Owens testified that "part of". @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. "I was scared," Owens responded. Patricia Said now lives under her maiden name Patricia Owens. She said she married him at the age of 15, with the permission of her parents after dating for three weeks and had three children with him over the next three years. 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. After the slayings, Said was sought on a capital murder warrant and was placed on the FBIs most-wanted list. She was soft-spoken on the witness stand, but her message about how she felt about her ex-husband was loud and clear . "Theres no forensic science to it.". By the end of the day it was decided it would be best to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, a bigger city close to a collage for Amina. Texas father Yaser Said stands accused of shooting and killing his daughters in his taxi, in what has been reported as an honour killing. In her opening statement on Tuesday, prosecutor Lauren Black said that he controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date. 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. 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. 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. She set off for Garland, Texas, saying that she filed a second police report after facing threats of harm from her then-husband and his brother if they didnt come back. Police have described the murders as "honor killings.". Breaking down several. Johnson testified that after the murders, Owens turned over a green ammo box she claimed belonged to Said. Dr. Brasheer Ahmed, with the Muslim Community Center in North Richland Hills, told NBC 5 in 2020, following Said's arrest, that murder was against Islamic principal. The girls' bodies were found in their father's taxi cab outside the Omni hotel in Irving, both of them had been shot multiple times. 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. "He will kill us," Amina wrote. They all headed for Kansas to Patricias aunts home. You do whatever you want since you know how to drive. "I did. He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date. Now prosecutors are picking at every issue in his story. 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. Defense lawyers unsuccessfully tried to limit the scope of cross-examination. On Christmas Day, after Mr Said went to work, Ms Owens testified that they fled to Oklahoma with their clothes in trash bags. A year after they married, she gave birth to their son, Islam. 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. ", Patricia Owens, the mother of Sarah and Amina Said, takes the stand in the trial of Yaser Said. She said that she didnt finish the process to get the order because they went back to Mr Said. Unfortunately unknown to Amina and Sarah and the boyfriends, their mother was talking to their father and planning on returning back to her husband. You deserve a lot more than what the judge gave to you. Owens was 15 years old when she married 29-year-old Yaser Said in February 1987. The girls and the friends agreed to allow Patricia to go along. Owens said the family moved to Bedford, and then to Lewisville in 2006. The charges were ultimately dropped after the girls recanted out of fear of their father, she said. "I told them the car is yours. Awful testimony in Yaser Said trial: Medical examiners explained autopsy pics; girls clothes. The sisters had become "very scared for their lives," and the decision to leave was made after Said "put a gun to Amina's head and threatened to kill her," the prosecutor said. Prosecutors claim Said's daughters made an outcry that he'd sexually abused them and had touched them inappropriately. 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. Owens said that while she knew about her daughters boyfriends, the trio kept the information from her husband out of fear of his reaction. "I do not have first-hand knowledge of what an honor killing is. "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. @NBCDFWhttps://t.co/R77vHTz043 pic.twitter.com/5eP4TqCGdS. At one time, she harbored the fear that Yaser would return and kill her too. NBC 5s Maria Guerrero reports. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. And he controlled everything in his household. 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.". In late 2007, Owens and her daughters fled again to Tulsa, Okla., after the girls feared their father would kill them if he learned they had both become engaged to their boyfriends. Said disappeared simultaneously with the girls' murders and eluded police and the FBI for 12 years before he was finally captured. Patricia Owens, who is Yaser Said's former wife and the mother of the girls, told federal authorities that members of his family had indicated to her "little remorse for the victims," and. Patricia Owens, the mother of 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said, points to her ex-husband Yaser Said on his third day of trial at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on . "Under no way, this is honor killing. Im dying, yelled a frantic woman identified as Sarah. But, Patricia maintained that if she saw her ex-husband again, shed first call the authorities and then ask him why and how someone could murder his daughters. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Patricia Owens, who is . Patricia Owens' face grew red and her lips pursed as she pointed to the man accused of killing her two daughters. Black said Sarah Said was shot nine times and Amina Said was shot twice. 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. On New Years Eve, the day before the murders, they returned to Texas. He testified he didnt even know Said was driving the cab. Said disappeared and had not been seen for 12 years until his arrest in Justin by the FBI in August 2020. About a week before the sisters were killed, they and their mother fled their home in Lewisville to Oklahoma to get away from their dad, who worked as a taxi driver, Black said. Owens told the jury Said left messages on their cell phones begging them to come back. So, where is Patricia today? An Atlanta based band that was in North Texas for a show said their equipment was stolen from their hotel Friday night. She told jurors about a conversation she had with a frantic Amina the day of the murders. On Thursday, the mother of Amina and Sarah Said took the stand. Amina was around eight years old at the time, while Sarah was seven years old. 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. During direct examination, Johnson testified that the make of some of the 9 mm bullets in the box matched some of the shell casings found at the murder scene. [ATTORNEY: "Ms. Owens this is a tough question. Patricia tells her daughters she had always wanted to leave their father and asked to run with them. Their own father. Got a tip? 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. The defense did not try to explain Said's whereabouts. But, Black said, in another act of "control" and "manipulation" by Said, he told them he had changed and convinced them to return home. Patricia Owens was just 15 in 1987 when she met 30-year-old Egyptian . Shot at close range; muzzle touched Sarahs clothes.I see 6 holesME looking at Sarahs top (she was shot 9x) Amina shot 2x lost a lot of blood. "Nobody said they saw him that night. Shes asking for help and she names her killer, her father, Yaser Said, Black said about Sarahs 911 call. At the time, Amina would have been around 8 years old and Sarah would have been 7. Defense attorney Joseph Patton said in opening statements that the evidence would not support a conviction, that police were too quick to focus on Said, who was born in Egypt, and suggested that anti-Muslim sentiment played into that focus.
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