But she didn't turn him in her mother, the girl's maternal grandmother, did that. "She said. Sarah Said tells you who her killer is, Black said. 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. Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were shot dead on New Year's Day in 2008 and their bodies left in cab at hotel parking. Patricia Kabore said a recent act of kindness had an immeasurable impact on her and her daughter, Rema Kabore. He said he was being followed that night in his taxi and he ran to safety, abandoning the girls. Diese Petition hat 1.181 Unterschriften erreicht, Diese Seite ist durch reCAPTCHA geschtzt und es gelten die Google. Patricia Ann Ricks, 72, is being held without bond in Nash County, North Carolina, following her arrest this week on multiple charges including first-degree murder. 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. Law enforcement finally captured the girl's father Yaser Said last year. Or political. People named Patricia Owens. Patricia Ann Wick (Stutsman County Jail) A 48-year-old woman and day care provider in North Dakota has been arrested for allegedly beating a 5-month-old child under her care to death last year. She returned to The Morning News in 2021 as a reporter covering primarily Dallas County criminal courts. These customs and relationships, which may seem (and which are) "primitive," actually preserve a peaceful status quo partly by keeping the wealth within one's own family. Patricia Said, Yaser . You deserve a lot more than what the judge has gave [sic] to you. She could have returned her daughters back to their father so the murders could take place as planned. Patricia Tissie Owens was not charged for the murder of her daughters but she had been to jail for collecting welfare and a housing subsidy based on her husband's presumed absence. They reported to us that she came into their care in 1999 where she was found in need in the streets of Puerto Rico, where she had been wandering around. Conspiracy Against Civil Rights, for her involvement in an . But long before 2008, Owens testified, she and her daughters were abused by Said. All rights reserved. The mothers actions in the days leading up to the murders are extremely suspicious. It was the first time shed seen Said since New Years Day 2008, when she believed that he was taking their daughters out for dinner. Owens said Said threatened to kill her and her family if she didnt return. Non-Arab and non-Muslim mothers also stand by their batterers (who may have girlfriends, and who, like Yasser, may leave for extended periods of time); and, they have been known to scapegoat their daughters for having "provoked" paternal lust. She is currently being held without bail at the Nash County Detention Center and is due to appear in the county's district court for the first time on Thursday, the sheriff's office said. Amina informed her friends the wounds were inflicted by her father, and her mother refused to allow her to seek medical attention. Part of me didnt.. In the Arab and Muslim world and in "Tissie's " world in Dallas, daughters are nothing but "trouble." California Suspect in North Hollywood anti-Asian attack on Filipino family is arrested and charged Nerissa Roque, left, stands next to her daughter Patricia at a rally Friday outside the Van. Otherwise, they will bring shame to their entire family. One such time was when the abuse allegations were revealed in 1998. Owens said the girls wanted to leave because Said prohibited them from dating. At the same time, there has been little discussion of the larger number of Jews that were forced out of Middle Eastern and North African countries where they had lived for thousand of years. Norma Patricia Esparza said she was raped in 1995 by Gonzalo Ramirez after meeting him at a club. None of my interviewees are clear about whether Islam Said suffers from a learning disability, a psychiatric condition, or has simply been raised to be an aggressive predator against women with a deep hatred of America. Their families testify against them. Join Facebook to connect with Tahir Utas and others you may know. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Mr Said evaded capture for 12 years after the murders, according to prosecutors. I just thought he would, like, punish them, like take their phone away and stuff like that, she said. A 72-year-old woman was arrested in North Carolina this week for allegedly beating her 8-year-old granddaughter to death, authorities said. Said, sitting across the room next to his lawyers and an interpreter, cocked his head to watch her. Here his FBI profile: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/murders/yaser-abdel-said. An unregistered Santa Fe investment adviser dubbed a "mini-Madoff" was ordered to pay nearly $10.4 million in restitution and penalties after engaging in a Ponzi scheme for 20 years involving . Krista M. Torralva, Staff writer. Patricia Owens. But Said never did, the owner testified. Clearly the proof is in the pudding and this is a double Honor Killing and the F.B.I. Violent yes. Amina and Sarah were honor students who dreamed of becoming doctors. He will serve an automatic life sentence if hes found guilty. Said became abusive and controlling, Owens said, and she left him countless times. Brainwashing is often accomplished by isolating the target from anyone else and immersing her in a culture of like-minded people. That night, Owens recalled, Amina said she was hungry, so Said said hed take the girls to a nearby Dennys. Maggie previously worked at the Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch. killing on American soil. 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. Owens divorced Said while he was on the run. The murderer was my husband, and those girls were my beautiful, brilliant, talented daughters. You can also check out a post where Patricia laments the death of the girls. What if the women of such cultures, transplanted to American shores, are relying upon American law to prevail and to save their lives? BOTH RESEARCH AND ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE document that women collaborate, both directly and indirectly, in honor killings. He will die in prison, which is our goal for him, Creuzot said. In pleading guilty, Islam Said admitted that evidence proved he committed the crimes charged in the superseding indictment filed in November 2020. ("Tina") Isa down for twenty minutes as her father, Zein Isa, a Krista Torralva first joined The Dallas Morning News as an intern on the business desk in 2013. It worked. Palestina Isa's three sisters kept pestering their father to "do something about the nigger-loving whore. If you commit a crime, you will pay for it.". Though a $100,000 reward was being offered for his capture, FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno said Wednesday night the apprehension of Said was done through "good old-fashioned, aggressive, initiative-based police work.". Murderously "crazy" on the subject of women yes. Ms Owens testified that she left Mr Said multiple times but that fear forced her back. The circuit attorney in St. Louis, Kimberly M. Gardner , said the couple created a dangerous situation . What led him to do that at this point is irrelevant," said Spivey. Amira was quoted as saying that "I had to protect my children. The sheriff's office received a call just after 4 p.m. that afternoon reporting a deceased child at one of the area's local emergency rooms. Instead, Said, 65, is accused of shooting 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said multiple times in a taxi cab that he left outside an Irving hotel. A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. I think that "Tissie's" hand steadied that trigger far more fatefully. Prosecutors have said that he was obsessed with possession and control. She removed her glasses, looked up and locked eyes with Yaser Said. In 1998, while living near Waco, Texas, Owens filed a report with the Hill County Sheriffs Office accusing Said of sexually abusing the two girls. But police did not test for gunshot residue on their hands, defense lawyers pointed out, and two other detectives who testified Thursday said they were not suspects. An emotional Ms Owens said that Sarah and Amina told her back in 1998 that their father had sexually assaulted them. Through DNA samples, they confirmed a match. They all said no although they did view her as "very passive." Said told jurors he saw headlights, pulled into a cab stand at a strip club and fled, leaving a gun in the cab. I do not have a simple answer. (l am). She quickly glanced toward Said a few times. She later dropped the charges filed in Garland, but Ms Owens added that she sought a protective order against Mr Said for her daughters in October 1998. He said she had some mental health issues and talked about wanting to go to Puerto Rico where it was warm. Raised in Columbus, she's a graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism. Huskinson wants Patricia Said charged under Title 18, sec. Bruno sentenced Giddings, 22, to four to 12 years in prison. Owens and her sister, Connie Moggio, addressed Said in a crowded courtroom Tuesday afternoon. 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. Saids son, Islam Said, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for helping him hide. Maybe mitigating circumstances exist that would diminish the charges that will eventually be brought against her. They then moved to another area, closer to Ms Owens sister. America did nothing. Said was on the lam for 12 years until his arrest in August 2020 at a family home in Denton County. I'm happy Amina Said (18) and Sarah Said (17) are finally getting some justice after their piece of shit father Yaser Said murdered both of them January 1, 2008. If convicted, he faces an automatic life sentence because prosecutors are not pursuing the death penalty. He leaned forward and watched her testify. Shock. Her husband, Mark . Their own father. The girls were found shot to . Defense attorneys have argued police ignored the girls boyfriends as suspects and wrongly narrowed in on Said. Krista M. Torralva, Staff writer. In the terrible case of honor killings, where Yaser Abdel Said shot his daughters Amina and Sarah, one role has remained murky throughout. She's spoken about why Yaser might have wanted to kill his daughters. 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. 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. Lions coach Matt Patricia says he has been honest about the 1996 sexual assault charge against him when asked about it. She added that Mr Said said that he wanted to murder her after the charges were filed. Update: Updated at 1:19 p.m. with additional information throughout. Meanwhile, I urge my readers to please send me your best suggestions about how American law enforcement, school, social service officials, legislators, mental health, and religious professionals may prevent the next honor killing in America. A Pennsylvania woman who has been missing for more than 30 years is found alive in an adult care home in Puerto Rico. Prosecutors painted Said as a controlling and abusive father and husband. Palestina tried very hard to please her parents. On the stand Monday, he denied killing his daughters and said he loved 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. "We were in shock," Juana said. That devil there, Owens said of Yaser Said, the man she divorced while he was on the run after the murders. Gun-loving yes. Either way, she failed to protect her daughters. Web site Copyright Lewis Loflin, All rights reserved. Patricia Ann Ricks, 72, is being held without bond in Nash County, North Carolina, following her arrest this week on multiple charges including first-degree murder. My informants tell me that "Tissie" could never control her son; that she minimizes, denies, and forgives his "weird, frightening, anti-social behaviors." It was perpetuated in a 2014 documentary called The Price of Honor, which fueled speculation Said killed his daughters because he harbored archaic beliefs that they should die for bringing shame to the family. L-R: Yaser Said, Islam Said and Yassein Said. If using this material on another site, please provide a link back to my site. First published on February 8, 2023 / 12:20 PM. Said is accused of killing his two daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, on New Year's Eve 2007 after police said he was upset his daughters were dating outside the Muslim faith. They said that traces of ethylene glycol were found on Ryan's baby bottle, the same bottle that she had used to feed him on September 1st. Such Americanized behavior doomed all these honor murdered girls. The girls, who were both students at Lewisville High School, were reportedly shot multiple times. 9:43 AM on Aug 4, 2022 CDT Updated at 6:45 PM on Aug 4, 2022 CDT. My father shot me. A Florida mother, who allegedly lied to police that her son with autism was abducted by two black men, was charged with the child's murder, police said. 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Patricia Said now lives under her maiden name - Patricia Owens. Owens repeatedly called Said the devil in her impassioned victim impact statement. Sarah, 17, and her sister Amina, 18, were found shot 11 times in the back of their father's taxi, abandoned in a hotel parking lot in 2008. Patricia moved in with Said's brother after he fled upon killing Amina and Sarah. LOUIS (AP) St. Louis' top prosecutor on Monday charged a husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns during a racial injustice protest outside their mansion. Instead, she wanted to get out of the house at the time. The woman, identified as Patricia Ann Ricks, was the child's legal guardian, according to the Nash County Sheriff's Office, which said in a news release that the girl and "several other siblings" lived at Ricks' home in the town of Nashville. Deciding to run away with two friends they confined in their mother their plans to escape their father. Updated at 7:10 p.m. with additional information throughout. After the killings, Owens lived briefly with Islam. All four were adamant: "Tissie" loves him, he never battered her, they never saw any bruises on her. She told the jury how she married Said in 1987, when she was just 15 and he was 29. NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff contributed to this report. This seems a likely possibility in "Tissie's" case which, however, does not mean that she is morally or even legally innocent in the matter of her daughters' abuse and death. Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie) Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past New Years Day in Dallas. . Amina Said's mother Patricia Owens Said was not charged with murder. (Source: WPXI/ROSS TOWNSHIP POLICE/CNN), Greenville woman charged in Beaufort County burglaries, Family of man killed by Wallace police seek justice during prayer vigil, Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan actor, dies at 61. The mother must be charged with conspiracy to murder her daughters. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. At one level, it is quite simple to understand: "Tissie" behaves in the same way that any normal, uneducated Arab Muslim wife might behave. Can we eject all people whose cultural backgrounds value honor killings? He kissed her forehead and a tear trailed down his face, Owens said. A boyfriend was not permissible under his rules. How can a mother do such a thing? DeSarno said while they are now focusing on the prosecution of Said, but they also hope to learn who else provided him aid and comfort over the last 12 years so that they, too, can face charges. Years later, with dementia, she started to divulge some details that connected the dots back to Ross Township. Not long after that, the daughters withdrew their claims of abuse. He reported them missing the next day, forcing Ms Owens to call the Lewisville Police Department to say she was alive and well but that she was scared of Mr Said, The Daily Beast reported. Its a murder, Hennig said. The next morning, on New Years, Amina's friend received a text message from Sarah asking Amina to call her mom. The charge is a Class E felony that carries a possible penalty of up to four years in prison. Patricia Cornwall, 51, of Los Angeles, was arrested at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta two days before Christmas following the chaotic flight from Tampa, Florida, the Atlanta Police Department stated in a press release.