Yaser Abdel Said

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Yaser Abdel Said (Arabic: ياسر سعيد; born January 27, 1957) is an Egyptian-American convicted murderer. On January 1, 2008, Said fatally shot both of his daughters. Both of their bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas. Said went into hiding, evading arrest for 12 years. He remained a fugitive from law enforcement for the duration of his hiding, and for six of those years, he was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. Said, who was very controlling over his family, felt that his daughters Amina and Sarah dishonored the family, primarily due to them dating non-Muslims, as well as for refusing to enter arranged marriages. On January 1, 2008, he lured them into his taxi cab on the pretense of taking them out to eat, where instead, he fatally shot them. Said was captured on August 26, 2020, in the town of Justin, Texas. His son, Islam, and Said's brother, Yassein, were both arrested in Euless, Texas, for aiding a fugitive. Said was taken into federal custody by the...

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