A boyfriend was not permissible under his rules. Johnson testified that after the murders, Owens turned over a green ammo box she claimed belonged to Said. The sisters were found shot to death in a taxi parked near a hotel in Irving on New Years Day in 2008. Prosecutors continue trying to build their case against a father accused of murdering his teenage daughters. "If the FBI did their work, they would know, but they were looking for Yaser Said and they did not do what they have to do," he said. 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. She was soft-spoken on the witness stand, but her message about how she felt about her ex-husband was loud and clear . He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date. 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. "Yes," Owens said. Prosecutors have said that he was obsessed with possession and control. The death penalty was not an option in this case. Amina gives in and goes home with her mother and within a couple hours Amina and Sarah were shot to death by their father. NBC 5s Maria Guerrero reports. Amina was 18 years old and was shot two times and Sarah was 17 years old as was shot nine times. I could see a young lady who had her eyes fixed open and there was stuff coming out of her nose, said Watson. My father shot me. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. "Because I believed behind this coverage there was a secret agenda. Texas father Yaser Said stands accused of shooting and killing his daughters in his taxi, in what has been reported as an honour killing. Prosecutors presented an email Amina reportedly sent her Lewisville teacher days before her death, confiding that her father was arranging her marriage so she and her sister were going to run away. 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. "Initially, we were looking at the boyfriends originally, and then we focused on the defendant,"Retired detective RandallJohnson said. Patricia Owens, YaserSaids former wife, had not seen him since New Years Day of 2008 when he took their daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, to dinner and insisted on going alone so they could talk. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Speaking through an interpreter in his native Arabic, Said testified someone else is responsible for the crime, but investigators never found that person because they only pursued him. The state wants to convict Yaser for being Muslim in 2008," said Patton. [ATTORNEY: "Yaser is apparently very happy to see his daughters again."] Jurors heard the 911 call from a dying teenager killed alongside her sister in 2008.
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