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Another possibility is that Faleh packed the clothes and money, days' worth of insulin to treat his diabetes, and his U. Whether Faleh assaulted the women on the spur of the moment or premeditated his action, he had time to reflect on what he did: run over two defenseless women, one of whom was his firstborn child. Three Peoria police detectives went to the Almaleki residence at 5 p. I'm always able to talk to her no matter what. She'll always be there for me to listen to and give me a shoulder to lean on. But the feud between Noor and their parents had taken its toll, and the siblings hadn't spoken in weeks.
Ali later told friends in an e-mail that he had taken to calling his sister vile names before they stopped speaking. Ali told Detective Juan Lopez that he hadn't been in touch with his father since mid-morning, when they had gone to a Best Buy electronics store together.
He insisted that he didn't want to get involved in whatever was going on. He told Detective Chris Boughey that things at his parents' home had been increasingly strained since Noor had returned from Iraq after leaving her arranged marriage. Ali said Noor had been "most disrespectful" to their parents to him, too since her return and continued to reject "traditional" Iraqi values. The young man mentioned his own problems with his father, whom he described as a chronic gambler who liked to frequent Phoenix-area Indian casinos. Ali's mother, Seham, had been calling him over the past few hours, he said, saying that something had happened to Noor.
Detective Boughey returned to his car after the interview but didn't immediately leave. Ali came out a few minutes later and told the cop he wanted to add some details to his account. Ali then said he had spoken with his father at p. Ali let on that he had seen television coverage and wanted to know where Noor was hospitalized. The detective said he couldn't tell him that right away. Faleh Almaleki crossed the Mexican border into Nogales, Sonora, about the same time that Ali was being questioned in Glendale. Faleh soon parked his Jeep in a mall parking lot and checked into a hotel.
The next day, October 21, Peoria police issued a warrant for Faleh Almaleki's arrest, alleging at that point two counts of aggravated assault. That day, a detective contacted Noor's mother by phone. Seham Almaleki said she was driving back from her job in California.
She claimed all she knew was that there was a family problem of an unspecified nature. The detective, Bill Laing, then told Seham that her husband had intentionally slammed into Noor and Amal with his Jeep and fled. This woman is dirty. Her family is dirty," Seham told Laing, referring to Amal Khalaf. Laing told Seham that Noor's condition was grave. She replied that she wanted to see her daughter as soon as possible. On October 22, two days after the assaults, a Glendale pharmacist told police that someone had phoned in a prescription for Faleh Almaleki.
That evening, members of Noor's family including her mother and many of her friends held a candlelight vigil at the DES parking lot in Peoria.
The news media were there to capture the moment. The case was generating more buzz with each passing day. Noor's photos, many of them lifted from her Facebook and MySpace pages, were displayed on sites across the Internet. Noor rarely smiled in the photos, possibly because of embarrassment over braces she had worn for a while. But her friends say she was naturally upbeat, blessed with a sassy sense of humor that she employed even when times were tough. How can I describe Noor?
She was an angel. Like a lot of us [Muslim women], she could be private, but she told me that her dad didn't understand her. Ali continued, "The boy [Marwan Alebadi] that is supposedly her boyfriend now — I don't like him. He contrasted Iraq and the United States, saying, "Different cultures, different values. One thing to one culture does not make sense to another culture. But he noted that seeing Noor at the hospital "just broke my heart. Nobody should have to go through that. Ali said his father had called home the previous day to ask about Noor's condition, but "my mom yelled at him and hung up.
That day, Peoria detectives learned that on October 22, a young man, possibly of Middle Eastern descent, and a woman wearing a veil had picked up prescription medicine for diabetes in Faleh's name. Detectives returned to the Almaleki home on October 26 for a follow-up interview with Ali and his mother, Seham. By now, the detectives had examined phone records, which showed that Faleh had been in touch with his immediate family and others around the time of the assaults. Seham admitted that she had lied in her earlier interview with police, but she continued to deny knowing her husband's whereabouts.
Mother and son also admitted they had picked up the medicine at the pharmacy. But Seham insisted she had thrown the pill bottles out of her car window, though she couldn't come up with a reason for having done so. Amal got what was coming to her, Seham alleged, because she is the matriarch of a family allegedly flush with drug abusers and thieves.
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Out of his mother's presence, he provided new details of his father's call to him before the assaults. He said his father sounded angry, so he told Faleh to go home. On October 27, British Customs officials informed U. British Customs soon put Faleh on a Delta flight to Atlanta, where the feds have a port of entry for incoming fugitives. On October 28, Mexican authorities in Nogales contacted Peoria police.
They had found Faleh's Jeep — the missing weapon — in a mall parking lot. Crime-scene investigators later found hair, fiber, and human tissue on and under the front bumper of the vehicle. Faleh Almaleki waived his Miranda rights against self-incrimination, which meant the detectives could have at him.
At first, Faleh told them he had run over the two women in a freakish accident after coincidentally finding them at the DES office. If I want to kill her, I go buy a gun. I know where they live. I just lost control [of the car]. Like his wife, Faleh faulted Amal Khalaf for what had happened.
He claimed she had "stolen" their daughter from them. He insisted that he loved Noor, noting that his cell phone contained several photos of her. But, as if it were a self-evident truth, Faleh said his daughter should not have become so "Americanized" — that it was wrong. Though unconfirmed, a far more likely scenario is that Faleh's cousin, Jamil Almaleki or someone else close to the Almalekis , delivered the money, diabetes medicine, and a suitcase filled with clothes that Faleh had with him when British authorities collared him. Jamil Almaleki could not be contacted for this story, and police reports suggest that he may have returned to Iraq.
Faleh said he hopped a bus from Nogales to Hermosillo and then flew to Mexico City. Within a day, he boarded a Mexicana Airlines flight to London, where his desperate flight from the Peoria parking lot abruptly ended.
Detective Boughey asked Faleh whether his family was on his side. Perhaps, the detective said, his attack had restored some of the "honor" supposedly lost by Noor's lifestyle choices. Faleh didn't reply directly, saying he would certainly help a friend or family member in a similar predicament.
Boughey responded that he would not crush his daughter with a car. He soon asked Faleh again whether he had meant to hurt the women. He was booked into the Clayton County Georgia Jail and waived extradition. On October 31, the Peoria detectives escorted him back to Arizona. Doctors at John C. Lincoln North Hospital pronounced Noor Almaleki clinically brain dead at 7 a. Her family decided to take her off life support. Several members — including her mother and brother, Ali — were by Noor's bedside when her heart stopped beating at a.
Police noted at Noor's autopsy that her eyes so hauntingly beautiful in photographs were swollen shut. Days later, a Maricopa County grand jury indicted Faleh on charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, and leaving the scene of an accident. Noor's violent death struck a nerve worldwide, especially after a county prosecutor officially attached "honor killing" to it. To some, she would become a symbol for the ills said to infect Muslim culture, ills that would allow a father to slaughter a daughter with the blessing of at least some family members.
A reporter for the English-language Jordan Times and author of Murder in the Name of Honor, Husseini has written about dozens of such crimes in her homeland. In Jordan and elsewhere in the Middle East, men committing such killings often receive lax punishment — sometimes getting sentenced to only months, if that, behind bars. Faleh Almaleki's fatal attack on his daughter fit the pattern of a typical "honor" crime in the Middle East.
The differences are that Faleh used a vehicle instead of a knife or machete and that, if convicted, he will probably spend the rest of his life in prison. County Attorney Andrew Thomas' office is not seeking the death penalty.