The capital murder trial of Yaser Abdel Said, a 65-year-old cab driver from Lewisville accused of murdering his two teenage daughters in a purported “honor killing” continues Friday in Dallas.
“I could see a young lady who had her eyes fixed open and there was stuff coming out of her nose,” said Watson.
Day two of testimony ended with a former crime scene investigator who wheeled in a cart full of evidence including the bullet-riddled cab seats, shell casings and projectiles found throughout the car and photographs showing a shell casing found on Amina’s shoulder. 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. 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.
In a letter written to the judge overseeing the case, Said said he was not happy with his kids'"dating activity" but denied killing his daughters. 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.