Meet Amina and Sarah? Texas trial for taxicab driver and murderer Yasir Said begins
A Jury selection process is said to begin in the trial of Yasir Said,a Texas taxicab driver accused in the 2008 of the “honor killings” of his two teenage daughters.
Yasir Said whose full name is Yaser Abdel Said was arrested after being on the run for 12 years.
He was arrested on August 2020, in Justin which is 36 miles northwest of Dallas.
Yasir Said was one of the famous FBI’s 1o Most Wanted list.
Yasir Said brother and the son of his brother were equally arrested in Eules, Texas. The crime of the two was for
harboring a known fugitive and they are both serving prison terms in federal prison.
Who is Yasir Said:Taxicab driver and murderer of Amina and Sarah
Yasir Said was born in Egypt and is suspected to have sought on a capital murder warrant since the New Year’s Day 2008 fatal shootings.
The two teens were Lewisville High School students and they were Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18.
“great fear for her life.”
Gail Gattrell, the sisters’ great-aunt, has called the deaths an “honor killing,” in which a woman is murdered by a relative to protect her family’s honor.
“Help,” said a crying voice on the 911 recording, later determined by police to be that of Sarah Said. “I’m dying. Oh my God. Stop it.”
Sarah’s call for help could not be processed because she did not give direction and much of what she said was described to be to unintelligible.
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The dispatcher’s repeated requests for her to provide an address went unanswered. Another emergency dispatcher received another call about an hour later from an Irving motel. The sisters’ bodies were in a cab, one in the front passenger seat and the other in the back. The caller said he could see blood.
“They don’t look alive,” said the caller, whose name was deleted from the recording.
