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Yaser Said found guilty of capital murder in 2008 shootings of teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina - ABC News

Yaser Said found guilty of capital murder in 2008 shootings of teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina - ABC News

Yaser Said found guilty of capital murder in 2008 shootings of teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina - ABC News
Aug 10, 2022 1 min, 10 secs

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.

Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case.

Patricia Owens, the mother of Amina and Sarah, addressed her ex-husband on the stand after the verdict.

Prosecutors claim Said, who is Muslim, murdered his daughters because he was upset that the girls were dating.

The girls, along with their mother and their boyfriends, fled their Texas home to Oklahoma on Christmas Day 2007, four days after Amina sent the email.

Witnesses said the girls returned to the Dallas area on New Year's Eve when their mother said Said convinced her to return home.

In a letter written to the judge overseeing the case, Said said while he disapproved of his daughters’ “dating activity,” he denied killing the girls.

However, Said claims he left the vehicle, fleeing into a wooded area before the girls were killed because he thought someone wanted to murder him, testifying that he spotted an unknown person in a car stalking them while they were driving to dinner.

"Everybody has a preference in how they discipline their kids, just like they have a preference for what kind of food they eat, what kind of people they date, what religion they want to practice," Baharan Muse, Said's defense attorney, said in closing arguments Tuesday.

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