A suburban Dallas man who evaded arrest for greater than 12 years after being accused of fatally capturing his two teenage daughters in 2008 was convicted Tuesday of their killings.
Yaser Stated, 65, was discovered responsible of capital homicide within the deaths of 18-year-old Amina Stated and 17-year-old Sarah Stated. Prosecutors didn't pursue the demise penalty, which means Yaser Stated receives an computerized life sentence.
Prosecutor Lauren Black has stated Stated was "obsessive about possession and management."
The sisters have been discovered shot to demise in a taxi parked close to a resort within the Dallas suburb of Irving on New Yr's Day in 2008. Jurors heard a 911 name Sarah Stated made by cellphone, telling the operator that her father had shot her and that she was dying.
Sarah Stated was shot 9 occasions and Amina Stated was shot twice.
Every week earlier than they have been killed, the ladies and their mom fled their residence within the Dallas suburb of Lewisville and went to Oklahoma to flee Stated. The sisters' boyfriends additionally joined them.
The prosecutor stated the sisters had change into "very scared for his or her lives," and determined to go away after their father "put a gun to Amina's head and threatened to kill her."
The mom, Patricia Owens, who's divorced from Stated, testified that he satisfied her to return to Texas. she testified: "I did not suppose something would occur."
In a letter written to the choose, Stated wrote that he was not completely satisfied together with his daughters' "relationship exercise" however he denied killing them.
On Monday, Stated instructed jurors that he didn't kill his daughters. He stated he fled the taxi he was driving that night as a result of he thought they have been being adopted and somebody wished to kill him. He stated he didn't flip himself in to authorities as a result of he feared he wouldn't get a good trial.
In a Dec. 21, 2007, e-mail that was introduced into proof, Amina Stated instructed a instructor that she and her sister deliberate to run away. She stated they did not need to reside by the tradition of their father, who was born in Egypt, nor did they need organized marriages, as he deliberate. Her father, she stated, had "made our lives a nightmare."
"He'll, with none drama nor doubt, kill us," the e-mail learn.
After the slayings, Stated was sought on a capital homicide warrant, and was positioned on the FBI's most-wanted checklist. He was lastly arrested arrested in August 2020 in Justin, about 35 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. His son, Islam Stated, and his brother, Yassim Stated, have been subsequently convicted of serving to him evade arrest.