The trial for a Washington father and his spouse accused of attempting to kill their 17-year-old daughter in October 2024 is slated to start Monday.
Ihsan Ali, 44, and his 40-year-old spouse, the sufferer’s mom, Zahraa Ali, are charged with second-degree tried homicide, second-degree tried kidnapping, first-degree tried kidnapping, and second-degree home violence assault in Thurston County.
Moreover, Ihsan Ali is charged with fourth-degree assault and Zahraa Ali is charged with violation of a home violence protecting order and second-degree housebreaking.
The mother and father’ alleged Oct. 18, 2024, assault on their very own teenage daughter might have been a doable “honor killing” try, in response to witness accounts detailed in courtroom paperwork obtained by Fox Information Digital.
The sufferer advised police that her father was “attempting to pressure her to go to a different nation, which had prompted her to run away earlier within the day.”
She went to her former public faculty, Timberline Excessive College in Lacey County, believing she may get assist from adults there, and her father, mom and sister allegedly adopted her to the varsity, an affidavit filed on Oct. 24, 2024, states.
The 17-year-old lady stated a faculty counselor helped her discover a room at “Secure Haven,” and her plan was to take a metropolis bus from the varsity to get there. Whereas ready for the town bus, the sufferer’s father allegedly approached her and “stated she wanted to go house,” the affidavit states.
“He wouldn’t take no for a solution and started pulling at her shirt. She stated that after she was positioned right into a choke maintain, she was unable to breathe or converse, after which handed out,” the affidavit says, including later that the sufferer believes she misplaced consciousness a number of occasions whereas her father allegedly choked her.
Video footage of the assault not too long ago obtained by The Each day Mail exhibits a part of the struggle unfolding on the public bus cease.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Alis’ legal professional, Erik Kaeding, for remark.
A number of witness accounts detailed within the affidavit say the sufferer’s father approached and attacked the sufferer whereas the sufferer’s 16-year-old boyfriend received between the 2 and tried to intervene. The sufferer’s father allegedly punched the 16-year-old boy, who in flip started “punching Ishan [Ali] within the head to get him to let go of [the victim].”
Witnesses additionally described seeing the sufferer’s eyes roll again whereas her father allegedly choked her, in response to courtroom paperwork.
The sufferer’s boyfriend’s mom later advised police that she had been current as soon as for a CPS interview with the 17-year-old sufferer wherein she apparently acknowledged that “her father had not too long ago been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an organized marriage with an older man overseas.”
The sufferer’s boyfriend advised police he believed the 17-year-old sufferer was “going to die whereas her father was choking her out on the bottom,” the affidavit reads.
The sufferer additionally stated she “thought she was going to die” and recalled her mom and sister “attempting to seize maintain of her” throughout the incident.
Whereas the struggle was underway, a bystander witness noticed Ishan Ali put the lady in a chokehold “and wouldn’t let go.” He intervened “and was finally capable of get the feminine to interrupt away and detained Ishan for regulation enforcement as he was the first aggressor,” courtroom paperwork learn.
The boyfriend’s father, Victor Barnes, beforehand advised FOX 13 Seattle that he’s glad his son “was there to avoid wasting [the victim’s] life” however added that he wants “extra rationalization about why the adults have been so careless.”
He advised the outlet an grownup ought to have escorted the sufferer to the bus cease slightly than his 16-year-old son.
“Highschool for me is a time I’d always remember. It was most likely a few of the 4 funniest years of my life, and it’s unlucky he must expertise one thing like this in highschool,” stated Barnes.
He additional advised the outlet that he needed to file a restraining order towards the sufferer’s mother and father as a result of they saved exhibiting as much as his household’s house on the lookout for the sufferer previous to the assault, FOX 13 reported.
