Hours before two teenage girls were found dead in a taxi outside an Irving hotel, their aunt urged them to flee from their father, she testified on the first...
Hours before two teenage girls were found dead in a taxi outside an Irving hotel, their aunt urged them to flee from their father, she testified on the first day of the 65-year-old’s capital murder trial.
Amina and Sarah were honor students and athletes at Lewisville High School. They aspired to become doctors, their aunt Connie Moggio testified. Moggio sobbed as photos of the girls smiling in their school pictures were displayed in the courtroom.Said is charged with capital murder. If convicted, he faces an automatic life sentence because prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.
Moggio described Amina as “bubbly, happy and very smart — a great girl.” Younger sister, Sarah, Moggio said, was “headstrong, but happy as well,” energetic and pretty. Moggio said she told Amina to go to the Lewisville Police Department, file a restraining order against her father and “go as far as” she could.The evening of Jan. 1, 2008, Sarah called 911 and said her dad shot her and she was dying. A man called authorities about an hour later after discovering their bodies outside the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, part of Irving.
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