DALLAS — AP
A man on the run from police since his teenage daughters were found shot to death in a taxicab on New Year's Day had threatened to hurt one of the girls for dating a non-Muslim boy, according to police documents.
Authorities deflected questions Wednesday about whether the sisters, who had both a Christian and Muslim memorial service, might have been victims of an "honor killing."
"There's a lot of speculation out there right now," Irving police spokesman Richard Gilmette said. "We have no solid information."
Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were found shot multiple times in a cab outside a suburban Dallas hotel. Police found them after one of the girls called 911 from a cell phone and said she was dying. A capital murder warrant has been issued for Yaser Said, 50, who has not been seen since the Lewisville High School students were found dead.
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Gail Gattrell, the sisters' great-aunt, has called the deaths an "honor killing," in which a woman is murdered by a relative to protect her family's honor.
According to a police report released Tuesday, a family member told investigators that Yaser Said threatened "bodily harm" against Sarah for going on a date with a non-Muslim.
The police documents, first obtained by Dallas television station KXAS, also show that Patricia Said fled with her daughters in the week before the girls were killed because she was in "great fear for her life."
She asked police if she needed to do anything to prevent her husband from getting information about the girls when they enrolled in a different school, according to the documents.
Gilmette said police had no information on the father's whereabouts. The department on Wednesday taped a segment for "America's Most Wanted" in hopes of finding him, Gilmette said.
A man on the run from police since his teenage daughters were found shot to death in a taxicab on New Year's Day had threatened to hurt one of the girls for dating a non-Muslim boy, according to police documents.
Authorities deflected questions Wednesday about whether the sisters, who had both a Christian and Muslim memorial service, might have been victims of an "honor killing."
"There's a lot of speculation out there right now," Irving police spokesman Richard Gilmette said. "We have no solid information."
Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were found shot multiple times in a cab outside a suburban Dallas hotel. Police found them after one of the girls called 911 from a cell phone and said she was dying. A capital murder warrant has been issued for Yaser Said, 50, who has not been seen since the Lewisville High School students were found dead.
Click here to see photos.
Gail Gattrell, the sisters' great-aunt, has called the deaths an "honor killing," in which a woman is murdered by a relative to protect her family's honor.
According to a police report released Tuesday, a family member told investigators that Yaser Said threatened "bodily harm" against Sarah for going on a date with a non-Muslim.
The police documents, first obtained by Dallas television station KXAS, also show that Patricia Said fled with her daughters in the week before the girls were killed because she was in "great fear for her life."
She asked police if she needed to do anything to prevent her husband from getting information about the girls when they enrolled in a different school, according to the documents.
Gilmette said police had no information on the father's whereabouts. The department on Wednesday taped a segment for "America's Most Wanted" in hopes of finding him, Gilmette said.
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I wonder why this doesen't get more attention. According to the The United Nations Population Fund, the annual worldwide total of honor-killing victims may be as high as 5,000 women.
The worst of this is that Yaser Said had to go through a pretty heavy background screen in order to drive a cab in Irving. I'm sure nothing came back that would have indicated that he was any more than a normal father of 2.
I've also heard that there might have been indications that Said may have been verbally abusing his daughters to the point that they were afraid of him. Why was there no intervention. Were they afraid to ruffle feathers? I mean...these days, you can't discipline a child with someone calling CPS. If these girls were openly afraid of their father, why was there no intervention?
On a much lesser note, this really gives my industry a black eye. We have a bad enough reputation. I wonder how many people won't take a cab now because the driver may be another Yaser Said.
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