Thread: Father says he killed four children

Remember the article posted on this forum a couple of weeks ago about a group that were selected to come to America from this same country and were given a class about America and the instructor told them that some people come to America and end up killing themselves and they didn't understand if it was to be like paradise. Alot of people are unable to adjust to a place that is so different than what they know. Why are they bringing so many people here to live in poverty? LA now has 1/2 million people making less than $15,000 a year reported by Glen Beck on his show tonight. I think he said that 71% of the population of LA is either rich or poor the middle class is almost extinct in that city. Why bring these people here to live in public housing and on welfare? How many can our welfare and medicad system support? Alot of these people would be better off where they were planted, why uproot them and place them into a world they are not familiar with and don't know how to function in. Mass immigration from 3rd world countries can be attributed to one thing, our government is turning this nation into a 3rd world country by importing the 3rd world.


LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- Four children were found dead in a public housing complex Friday after a man walked into police headquarters and said he had killed his family.

The man, who had been living in Oregon, had an argument about the children with his estranged wife before he attacked her with a blunt instrument, said Lt. Col. Phil Turner.

"We believe she was assaulted first, and then the children killed," Turner said.

The children's mother, 29-year-old Fatuma Amir, suffered injuries that were not life-threatening and was speaking to investigators, he said.

Said Biyad, 42, went to police headquarters around 9 a.m. and told police, "I've just killed my family," Turner said. Biyad was charged with four counts of murder and one count of assault.

Police officers sent to the apartment at the Iroquois Homes complex found the children's bodies. The three girls were ages 8, 7 and 4, and the boy was about to turn 3, Turner said.

Autopsies were scheduled for Saturday, he said.

Amir's brother, Osman Noor, remembered the children as being "wonderful."

"Everybody is sad today," Noor said. "We've never seen ... somebody do like this."

Hassan Muya, a family friend, said the family had emigrated from Somalia to Oregon, but Amir moved to Louisville when they began to have problems. He said Biyad had come to Louisville in recent weeks, perhaps to reconcile.

Christina Geiger, 31, who has lived at the complex since January, said her children played with the young victims. Geiger said she hadn't noticed any problems between the woman and the man.

"I call it a senseless tragedy. That's what I think of this," she said through tears.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...610100398/1008
Coroner: 4 children's throats cut
Somali told police wife disrespectful

By Jessie Halladay
jhalladay@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

A Somali refugee told Louisville Metro Police that he cut his four children's throats after raping and bludgeoning his wife because she had disrespected him, police said yesterday.

It was the final, violent act in a relationship with troubles stretching back more than a year to the resettled couple's home in Portland, Ore.

Yesterday, Jefferson County Coroner Ron Holmes described how the children died.

Goshany, Khadija, Fatuma and Sidi Ali, ages 2 to 8, had their throats slashed, and two of the children had defensive wounds on their arms and wrists, indicating they attempted to fight back, Holmes said.

The children's bodies were discovered Friday morning after their father, Said Biyad, turned himself in to Louisville Metro Police. and told detectives, "I just killed my family," police said.

A hunting knife believed to be the murder weapon was found at the children's home at 1427 Bicknell Ave. in the Iroquois Homes public housing complex, said Lt. Steve Green, head of the police homicide unit.

Biyad, 42, is being held by Metro Corrections on four counts of murder and one count each of attempted murder, domestic rape and first-degree assault.

His estranged wife, Fatuma Amir, is being treated at University Hospital. Her family has requested that no information be released about her condition.

Police have said that Biyad and Amir argued over the children and that Biyad apparently sexually assaulted his wife. Green said Biyad hit her in the head with a mallet before killing the children.

Biyad came to the police headquarters "very shortly after the murders," he said.

"He knew that it was wrong and came in to turn himself in," Green said.

Also yesterday, Portland, Ore., police released a report with information about a March 2005 domestic incident involving Biyad and Amir, when the couple lived there.

They had resettled to Portland after leaving Somalia in 2004.

No charges were filed in the dispute, but a report was taken to document that the two had argued. The report said that after initially leaving the home, Amir drank bleach and was taken by ambulance to a hospital.

No other information was available from police about the incident.

Ali Sheikh, president of the Somali Bantu Community of Oregon, said about a year ago the community tried to offer assistance to Biyad and his wife after hearing that they were having problems.

"They were not happy with each other," Sheikh said.

But Biyad declined any help and stopped coming to the community's weekly meetings, said Sheikh, who also works at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization in Portland.

"Whenever he said I don't want help, then we stepped back," Sheikh said. "He decided to be out of our community."

He said Amir never came on her own to ask for help.

Sheikh said he heard that at some point Catholic Charities in Portland stepped in to help, but he did not know how. Catholic Charities did not return phone calls and previously has cited confidentiality policies in refusing to comment.

Eventually, Sheikh heard that Amir and the children had left Portland. He later heard that Biyad also had left the city.

He said news of the murders came as a shock to Portland's Bantu community.

"It makes us very, very sad," he said.

Reporter Jessie Halladay can be reached at (502) 582-4081.