A jury delivered a guilty verdict in the capital murder trial of a Lewisville man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in a taxi in 2008.
Yaser Abdel Said, evaded arrest for over 12 years following the slayings of his daughters, 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said. Prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty, meaning Yaser Said receives an automatic life sentence.
After the verdict, Patricia Owens, Said's ex-wife and mother of the victims spoke directly to him in a victim impact statement.
“You deserve a lot more than what the judge gave to you. You deserve to die,” Owens said. “At this time, you are nothing. You are a prisoner and a murderer and the devil.”
The mother’s sister and victim's aunt, Connie Moggio, told 65-year-old Said she hopes the remainder of his years in prison are filled with his worst nightmares.
Prosecutor Lauren Black has said Said was “obsessed with possession and control.”
The sisters were found shot to death in a taxi parked near a hotel in Irving on New Year’s Day in 2008. Jurors heard a 911 call Sarah Said made by cellphone, telling the operator that her father had shot her and that she was dying.
Sarah Said was shot nine times and Amina Said was shot twice.
A week before they were killed, the girls and their mother fled their home in Lewisville and went to Oklahoma to escape Said. The sisters’ boyfriends also joined them.
The prosecutor said the sisters had become “very scared for their lives,” and decided to leave after their father “put a gun to Amina’s head and threatened to kill her.”
The mother, Patricia Owens, who is divorced from Said, testified that he convinced her to return to Texas.
“I didn’t think anything would happen,” she testified.
Said told jurors that he did not kill his daughters. He said he fled the taxi he was driving that evening because he thought they were being followed and someone wanted to kill him. He said he did not turn himself into authorities because he feared he would not get a fair trial.
In a Dec. 21, 2007, email that was brought into evidence, Amina Said told a teacher that she and her sister planned to run away. She said they didn’t want to live by the culture of their father, who was born in Egypt, nor did they want arranged marriages, as he planned. Her father, she said, had “made our lives a nightmare.”
“He will, without any drama nor doubt, kill us,” the email read.
After the slayings, Said was sought on a capital murder warrant and was placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list. He was finally arrested in August 2020 in Justin. His son, Islam Said, and his brother, Yassim Said, were subsequently convicted of helping him evade arrest.
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