A taxi driver from the Dallas area was searching for the murder of his two teenage daughters in 2008 and was arrested Wednesday in a small town in North Texas, the FBI said. Agents arrested Yaser Abdel Said, 63, in Justin, 36 miles northwest of Dallas.
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The Egyptian-born suspect has been wanted in a mass murder order since fatal New Year’s Day 2008 shootings of two Lewisville High School students, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18. Legal documents do not list lawyer for the suspect ,
A police report at the time said a family member told investigators that the suspect “threatened bodily harm against Sarah threatening to go on a date with a non-Muslim. The mother, Patricia Said, fled with her daughters in the week before her death. because she was in “great fear for her life.” Gail Gattrell, the sisters’ great-aunt, called the dead a “honor killing,” in which a woman is murdered by a relative in honor of her family. to protect.
The teenage sisters were shot several times in a cabin outside a motel in Irving, a suburb of Dallas. Police found her after one of the girls called 911 from a cell phone and said she was going to die.
“Help,” said a crying voice on the 911 recording, later determined by police to be that of Sarah Said. “I die. Oh my God. Stop it.”
Police could not find the teens immediately after the 19:33 call. Much of what Sarah said in the recording was incomprehensible, and the dispatcher’s repeated requests for her to give an address went unanswered.
An emergency dispatcher received another call about an hour later from a motel in Irving. The sisters’ bodies were in a cabin, one in the front passenger seat and the other in the back. The caller said he could see blood.
“They do not look alive,” said the caller, whose name was deleted from the recording.
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The FBI also announced Wednesday night that two more arrests have been made, CBS DFW reported. Islam Said, the son of the suspect, and Yassim Said, the brother of the suspect, are both charged with having a refugee.
“Even after 12 years of frustration and dead-ends, the pursuit for her killer has never stopped,” Irving police officer Jeff Spivey said Wednesday in a statement. “Today’s arrest of her father, Yaser Said, brings us closer to ensuring justice is served in her name.”
Said had been place on the The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List 2014 “for the heinous act he committed against his daughters,” said FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno.
“His capture and arrest brings us one step closer to justice for Amina and Sarah,” he said.
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