Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20-year-old Arizona woman hit with car driven by angry Iraqi father, dies
By Corky Siemaszko
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009
Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, died at an Arizona hospital on Monday after clinging to life for nearly two weeks.
Her dad, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, was in jail charged with two counts of aggravated assault when he got word his daughter was dead.
The 48-year-old father, who was angry that his daughter was not adhering to traditional Iraqi values, now likely faces a murder charge.
Prosecutors have called Almaleki's death a sick "honor killing."
"By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," county prosecutor Stephanie Low told a Maricopa County judge earlier.
Almaleki was walking through a parking lot in suburban Phoenix with her boyfriend's mother on Oct. 20 when her father gunned the engine of his SUV and mowed down both women, police said.
Afterward, he fled to Mexico and abandoned his Jeep Grand Cherokee in Nogales before making his way to Mexico City.
There, he boarded a plane for Britain where the cops denied him entrance and put him on a plane back to Arizona.
Almaleki's friend, Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, also was hospitalized after the crash, but her injuries were not life-threatening.
Relatives told reporters that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, who immigrated with his family in the mid-1990s, made his daughter marry a man in Iraq. But she defied him by returning to Arizona to live with her boyfriend and his mom.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009
Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, died at an Arizona hospital on Monday after clinging to life for nearly two weeks.
Her dad, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, was in jail charged with two counts of aggravated assault when he got word his daughter was dead.
The 48-year-old father, who was angry that his daughter was not adhering to traditional Iraqi values, now likely faces a murder charge.
Prosecutors have called Almaleki's death a sick "honor killing."
"By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," county prosecutor Stephanie Low told a Maricopa County judge earlier.
Almaleki was walking through a parking lot in suburban Phoenix with her boyfriend's mother on Oct. 20 when her father gunned the engine of his SUV and mowed down both women, police said.
Afterward, he fled to Mexico and abandoned his Jeep Grand Cherokee in Nogales before making his way to Mexico City.
There, he boarded a plane for Britain where the cops denied him entrance and put him on a plane back to Arizona.
Almaleki's friend, Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, also was hospitalized after the crash, but her injuries were not life-threatening.
Relatives told reporters that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, who immigrated with his family in the mid-1990s, made his daughter marry a man in Iraq. But she defied him by returning to Arizona to live with her boyfriend and his mom.
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