Major update in deaths of two sisters after dad shot them in ‘honor killing’ and last words heard in chilling 911 call

A FATHER "obsessed with control" who shot and killed his two daughters in an honor killing has been convicted of murder.

After over a decade on the run, one of the FBI's former top wanted suspects, Yaser Said, was found guilty of the deaths of his daughters Amina and Sarah.

Some of Sarah’s last words were heard in a New Year’s Day 911 call before she was found dead in the back of her father’s taxi outside Dallas, Texas. 

“Help! My dad shot me,” 17-year-old Sarah shouted as her father shot her and Amina, 18, in an “honor killing," prosecutors said.

Said, 65, learned that his daughters had begun dating and realized he could not “control them."

The girls had formed a plan to escape their father two weeks before their deaths. 

However, the girls were persuaded to return to Texas after they were reported missing.

“I’m dying, I’m dying,” Sarah cried in the January 1, 2008 call played for jurors in the Dallas County courtroom on Wednesday. 

Just minutes after the haunting phone call, the girls’ bodies were found outside a Dallas hotel by a passerby, who called authorities. 

Said was nowhere to be found and the 12-year manhunt to find him ultimately landed him a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

He was finally captured in August 2020 in Justin, Texas, about 40 minutes from where his daughters were brutally murdered. 

Prosecutors say that Said lured his family back to town after their escape attempt then fatally shot his daughters. 

He stood trial for capital murder and now faces life in prison.

Said pleaded not guilty with his lawyers claiming he was only a suspect because he is Muslim and that the investigation into the teens’ deaths was botched. 

His son and brother were also arrested for allegedly helping him evade police. 

“It is wrong for the government to generalize an entire culture, criminalize an entire culture, to fit their narrative, and to fit their objective,” said his defense attorney Joel Patton in opening arguments. 

“The state wants to convict Yaser for being Muslim in 2008.”

However, the prosecution maintained that the case was about "a man being obsessed with possession and control," prosecutor Lauren Black said in court.

“He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they - and how they - could date. And he controlled everything in his household.”

The girls and their mother went to Oklahoma, where Owens had family, on Christmas day. 

Said reported them missing to the Lewisville Police Department the next day, forcing their mother to call an officer to inform them that she was “alive and well” but was afraid of her husband. 

Amina and Sarah returned to Dallas on New Year’s Eve after their mother convinced them, as Said claimed that he had changed.

A friend of the girls told jurors that the last words Amina told him before going back home were that he would never see her again. 

“She knew he was going to die,” he said.

Prosecutors say Said brought the girls into his taxi - Amina was sitting in the front passenger seat while Sarah was in the back - and drove them around before shooting them at around 7.30pm. 

“She’s asking for help and she names her killer, her father, Yaser Said,” Black said, referring to the 911 call. 

Said was found guilty of capital murder in his daughter's deaths.

Prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty so this means Said receives an automatic life sentence.