Thread: Police seek Arizona father after daughter run over

Police seek Arizona father after daughter run over

The Associated Press
11:32 a.m. October 21, 2009

PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too "Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values.

Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale allegedly ran his daughter down Tuesday at an Arizona Department of Economic Security parking lot in Peoria.

The victim, 20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki of Surprise, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

A second woman, 43-year-old Amal Edan Khalaf, also of Surprise, suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police say the women are roommates.

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Police seek Ariz. father after daughter run over

Updated 2h 3m ago
By Christina O'Haver, The Arizona Republic

Police are looking for a Glendale resident who allegedly hit two pedestrians, including his own daughter, with a car in a Peoria parking lot on Tuesday. Police said the suspect, of Iraqi descent, may have run down his daughter because he believed she was becoming too Westernized.
At about 2:05 p.m., police officers and firefighters responded to a report of a vehicle striking a pedestrian in the parking lot of a state Department of Economic Security office near 91st and Peoria avenues, said Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, is suspected of running down his daughter and a friend in a grey or silver 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee with Arizona license plate ADS-9192, Tellef said.

Family and friends of the victims told detectives that the suspect had made threats toward his daughter because she was not living according to traditional Iraqi values, Tellef said. However, police cannot immediately determine whether that was the motive in the incident.

According to Tellef, Almaleki fled the scene and drove west on Peoria Avenue.

The two women were transported to a Valley trauma center where the suspect's daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, was reported to have life-threatening injuries and Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, had injuries that were not life-threatening.

Tellef said the two victims, who live together in Surprise, were still in the hospital as of Wednesday morning.

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People come here from every country in the world and then proceed to violte our laws.

It needs to stop.