Ihsan Ali and his wife Zahraa Ali are facing charges of attempted murder after they tried to kill their daughter over her refusal of getting married to another man in a different country.
Two Washington state parents are facing charges after several bystanders had to step in to stop a father from strangling his 17-year-old daughter outside a high school. Authorities say the incident was a possible attempted «honor killing.»
Josh Wagner was driving with his family Oct. 18 near Timberline High School in Lacey when he noticed what he thought was a group of kids fighting. But as he jumped in to break up the fight, he realized it was a man choking a teenage girl.
«So, [I] pulled over to try to get the kids to stop and realized it was an adult male who had a teenager in a headlock and subdued him ’til the police arrived», Fox 8 News quoted Wagner as saying. «It was pretty angering. I didn’t know what was going on, why it was happening.
