Murder suspect’s brother gets 12 years for hiding sibling

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<p>FORT WORTH, Texas &mdash; The brother of a Texas man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in 2008 has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping his sibling evade arrest for more than a decade.</p>
<p>Yassein Abdulfatah Said, 59, was found guilty in February of conspiracy to conceal a person from arrest, concealing a person from arrest and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, federal prosecutors said. He was sentenced in a Fort Worth federal courtrooom on Friday.</p>
<p>His brother, Yaser Abdel Said, is accused of shooting and killing 17-year-old Sarah Yaser Said and 18-year-old Amina Yaser Said on New Year’s Day 2008. </p>
<p>The sisters were found shot multiple times in their father’s taxicab outside a hotel in the Dallas suburb of Irving. One of them managed to call 911 using a cellphone and said she was dying.</p>
<p>Their father was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/b031453d7c5ecf9adabe01538284390d"> arrested last August</a> in Justin, 36 miles (58 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. He awaits trial on a capital murder charge.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said Yassein Said and his nephew, Islam Said, harbored Yaser Said in an apartment in the Dallas suburb of Bedford and later in a home in Justin.</p>
<p>Islam Said, 32, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/arrests-3273736635a3a24310b6a65be843ba60">was sentenced in April</a> to 10 years in federal prison for helping his father evade arrest. </p>

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