Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Said was born in Sinai, Egypt. After Amina told her Owens had gone back to Said, Moggio testified that she told Amina to go to the police and file a restraining order against her father. appreciated. Yaser Said allegedly invited his daughters to a meal at Denny's before killing them. Yaser Abdel Said is an Egyptian and according to the FBI a resident of the United States. Instead, prosecutors say he parked the vehicle near the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, near Irving, Texas, and then shot both teens multiple times. As for Yasser Said, who awaits a capital murder trial, his former wife and former sister-in-law want to see more extended family members charged with harboring him. Yaser Said biography: 13 things about Lewisville, Texas man born in The victims' aunt, Connie Moggio, said, "How the heck you can protect a man that shot and killed your sisters and have no regard for the law or the two lives that are lost is disgusting to me?". "You A warrant for Yaser Abdel Said's arrest was issued the day after the 2008 shootings of his daughters, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18. Robert Spencer in PJ Media, Articles at Jihad Watch by Said, 64, has pleaded not guilty to the capital murder charge for the crime that his lawyers have insisted was only pinned on him because he is Muslim. All rights reserved. The state wants to convict Yaser for being Muslim in 2008.. Texas native Patricia Tissie Owens and Said are the parents of Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, Amina Said and Sarah Said.According to Owens, he was controlling and abusive throughout their relationship and over the years, she and their Said responded that he believed the person following them was after him and not his daughters. While this verdict does not bring Sarah and Amina back, my office and this jury have done all that is in our power to see that justice is done., Saids public defender, Bradley Lollar, told CNN, We are disappointed in the verdict, but accept it. Yaser Said The former wife of Yaser Said, Patricia Owens, took the witness stand Thursday in his capital murder trial in Dallas. February 8, 2021 / 3:15 PM Her aunt testified that she encouraged the girl to file for a restraining order against her father. Yaser Said is accused of shooting to death his The charges were ultimately dropped after the girls recanted out of fear of their father, she said. Said, 65, is on trial for capital murder after spending 12 years on the run after allegedly murdering his 17-year-old and 18-year-old daughters in what prosecutors have described as "honor killings" because he did not like that they had boyfriends. He became a permanent resident in the U.S., gaining full citizenship in 1997. In 2008 Yaser Said, father of three shot and killed his teenage daughters Amina and Sarah in what was reported to be an honor killing.