Noor Faleh Almaleki dies in Arizona Hospital

Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, underwent spinal surgery and had been in a hospital since Oct. 20, when police say her father ran down her and her boyfriend’s mother with his Jeep as the women were walking across a parking lot in the west Phoenix suburb of Peoria. Her father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized. She died from her injuries on Nov 2 after laying in a coma for nearly two weeks.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, fled after the attack but was arrested when he arrived at Atlanta’s airport, where he was sent from the United Kingdom after authorities denied him entrance. Peoria police interviewed him and brought him back to Arizona. At a court hearing over the weekend in Phoenix, county prosecutor Stephanie Low told a judge that Almaleki admitted to committing the crime. “By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family,” Low said. “This was an attempt at an honor killing.”