"Yazdanpanah."
Posted on 12/29/2011 8:42:12 AM PST by ME-262
Edited on 12/29/2011 9:20:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
GRAPEVINE -- A conflicted picture emerged Tuesday of a Colleyville man believed to have fatally shot six people, including his estranged wife and two children, and then himself on Christmas morning.
One woman who was part of a happy hour group that included Aziz "Bob" Yazdanpanah described him as a sweet joker who adored his family.
But another said she received a puzzling text message from him on Dec. 4, a few months after his wife and two children moved out of their Colleyville home and into a Grapevine apartment complex.
The shootings occurred inside the apartment amid opened Christmas gifts, police said.
The message, the friend said, went like this: “What do u call a guy who’s born in Austin and grows up in Dallas and then dies in Grapevine? ......... DEAD."
"He was always telling a joke," said the friend, who asked that her name not be used because she doesn't want to get involved in the tragedy. "But when he sent me this, I thought it was weird. I didn't even respond."
Yazdanpanah had attended several happy hours at a Colleyville restaurant with the two women and others in the past six months.
"He was just a sweet man," said Colleen Gedrose of Bedford. "He was outgoing, kind and adored his children."
Gedrose said Tuesday that Yazdanpanah didn't talk about problems with his family.
"I never saw him angry," she said.
On Christmas morning, police said, a middle-aged man dressed as Santa Claus fatally shot two men and four women and then himself inside a unit at the Lincoln Vineyard Apartments. Police said the attack was planned.
Police have yet to identify any of the victims, but various friends and neighbors said Yazdanpanah was believed to be the gunman.
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Baum said the family was Muslim but celebrated Christmas as a cultural holiday. The parents were originally from Iran.
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This isn’t the ME. He knew he wasn’t going to be praised for honor killing them in the US. Better to kill himself than get the death penalty or life in prison with Big Bubba as his cellmate.
I work with an Iranian that celebrated Christmas. He is very tolerant of others and is outspoken(to me) about radical islam. He was born a muslim but is the nicest guy. He wouldn’t hurt a fly. And he’s the best employee we have.
"Yazdanpanah."
According to other interviews and articles, the son Ali would side with the sister. Dad would take away her phone and either the mother or Ali would give it back to her. The son was disobeying the father so he was killed, too. There was no greater statement he could make against the western Christian world than to dress up as Saint Nick and murder them all on Christmas Day.
I worked with an Iranian woman once....sweetest woman ever!
They really do distinguish themselves from the Arabs.
Too bad Odumbo did not back up the uprising in Iran when they needed our support to be free again!
According to the 911 tape, he said, “Help...help...I am shooting people”
That’s extremely sad and doesn’t sound like your typical honor killing to me.
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