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Lacey parents found not guilty of attempted murder of teenage daughter(muslim “honor” killing attempt)
KOMO News ^ | 7/31/25 | KOMO staff

Posted on 07/31/2025 8:53:26 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie

Two Lacey parents have been found not guilty of attempted murder in connection with an assault on their teenage daughter.

Ihsan and Zahraa Ali were accused of trying to kill their teen daughter outside Timberline High School last fall.

After three days of deliberations, a jury found both parents not guilty of attempted murder.

However, the girl’s father, Ihsan, was found guilty of assault and unlawful imprisonment. The mother, Zahraa, was only found guilty of violating a court order, but was determined to be not guilty of attempted murder, unlawful imprisonment or assault.

Sentencing for both parents is set for mid-August. Mrs. Ali will be released from custody Thursday on her own personal recognizance but is ordered not to leave Thurston County and follow no contact orders that are in effect. Mr. Ali remains in custody until sentencing.

According to prosecutors, Mr. Ali faces up to 14 months on the assault conviction and up to 12 months on his unlawful imprisonment conviction.

Background on the case

Multiple witnesses testified during the trial that they saw Ihsan Ali trying to strangle his 17-year-old daughter.

“She’s unconscious, and he continues to strangle her around the neck for another 15-18 seconds and would have continued to do so even longer but for the intervention of those adults,” Stone said.

The initial investigation indicated Ali may have threatened his daughter with a so-called “honor killing” for refusing to go to Iraq for an arranged marriage to an older man, but prosecutors later wrote in court documents, “There is no express evidence that such was the motivation of either defendant in this case.”

During closing arguments, prosecutors said Zahraa Ali appeared to try to help her husband carry out the attempted murder.

"And when you look at that video, you see she does not provide any aid at any time to her child, zero aid,” Stone said. “That is not an effort to comfort her child. Again, that is not where her loyalty lies in this situation, and she demonstrates that over and over again."

But defense attorneys for the Alis zeroed in on intent, and they say neither parent was trying to kill their daughter that day.

"There’s no nefarious intent,” Erik Kaeding, who represents Ihsan Ali, said. “There’s no intent to hurt anybody badly, there’s no intent to kill anybody, there’s an intent to take your daughter home.”

“My client is not guilty,” Timothy Leary, who represents Zahraa Ali, said. “I think we can all agree this is a tragedy. They certainly could’ve done things differently, but that does not make this a crime.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: aliens; assault; attemptedmurder; doxanddestroy; erikkaeding; ihsanali; itstheislamstupid; learydefense; thurstoncounty; timothyleary; unlawfulimprisonment; washington; zahraaali
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OMG they got off.
1 posted on 07/31/2025 8:53:26 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
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To: Uncle Miltie

If the parents didn’t testify, and the attorney said it only, it happened, and the jury shouldn’t have considered the attorney’s comments and whims.


2 posted on 07/31/2025 8:57:42 PM PDT by healy61
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To: Uncle Miltie

The girl has to run for her life!

NOW!!!


3 posted on 07/31/2025 8:58:07 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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I wonder if any fellow muslims were in the jury?


4 posted on 07/31/2025 8:58:21 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Uncle Miltie

5 posted on 07/31/2025 9:00:32 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: xp38

Olympia is as far left as you can get.

Prolly muslim leftist sympathizers. ANTIFA sorts who approve of the destruction of Western Civilization.


6 posted on 07/31/2025 9:00:41 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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POS Washington state jury. Guaranteed a couple of females on the jury wouldn’t convict because of their culture.


7 posted on 07/31/2025 9:01:48 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: healy61

We need an Underground Railroad to get these girls safely away from their murderous muslim parents.


8 posted on 07/31/2025 9:02:38 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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So.......they tell the girl to suck it up and go home?


9 posted on 07/31/2025 9:03:56 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Uncle Miltie

That daughter is a dead woman walking.


10 posted on 07/31/2025 9:07:11 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Uncle Miltie
“My client is not guilty,” Timothy Leary, who represents Zahraa Ali, said. “I think we can all agree this is a tragedy. They certainly could’ve done things differently, but that does not make this a crime.”

Her lawyer is on the outside looking in and cannot see this as not just a 'tragedy?' I get that the defense atty job is to make the state prove guilt, but to speak of it as just an unfortunate happening is beyond this astral plane.
11 posted on 07/31/2025 9:08:14 PM PDT by posterchild
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Sounds like they got a Sharia-Compliant jury. Soon, we’ll be like the UK, unless Trump can figure out a way to get rid of this bunch.


12 posted on 07/31/2025 9:10:06 PM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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Of course they did.

According to our legal experts here on FR unless you sat down and wrote out that you intend to kill someone and the reason for it and get it notarized you are just a victim of your emotions and anyone who thinks differently is a bad person.

13 posted on 07/31/2025 9:10:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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Yes, I wonder how much ‘community relations’ figured in this.


14 posted on 07/31/2025 9:10:46 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: Uncle Miltie

Well, we do have to allow or these cultural differences, after all, all cultures are of equal value.


15 posted on 07/31/2025 9:11:38 PM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe | pf-t-t-t)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Her lawyer should have asked for a Change of Venue.
Too many in that city have become Liberal Drones and Puppets.


16 posted on 07/31/2025 9:11:58 PM PDT by lee martell
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“That daughter is a dead woman walking.”

Omgomgomg….,

How can you get far enough away and hide for the rest of your life???


17 posted on 07/31/2025 9:17:36 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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To: posterchild

I’d say 99%.


18 posted on 07/31/2025 9:19:47 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: xp38

Most likely.


19 posted on 07/31/2025 9:20:05 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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20 posted on 07/31/2025 9:24:41 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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