Honor Killing in Chicago
Charles Johnson
Mon Feb 19, 2007 at 4:57 pm PST • Views: 714
Police: Chicago Man Bludgeoned Relatives to Death Because He Felt ‘Disrespected’.
CHICAGO — An enraged Iranian immigrant used a 3-pound hammer to beat his wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law to death and then stabbed them repeatedly because he felt “disrespected,” police said Monday.
After the attack, Daryoush Ebrahimi, 55, also struck himself several times in the head with the same maul hammer he used to bludgeon his relatives, said Chicago Police Cmdr. Thomas Byrne.
“It was a very difficult scene, and that would be indicative of that type of anger,” Byrne said of the two apartments where the bodies were found on the city’s far North Side.
Police also found cell phone video messages and a letter that Ebrahimi left at one of the apartments, Byrne said. The FBI is helping translate the messages and letter, which are in Farsi.
“Right now I wouldn’t say it’s a suicide note … but it’s more about, again, how he feels disrespected, and that’s pretty much a reocurring theme in the note,” Byrne said.
Please note: “Honor killing” is not only a problem among Muslims, although it’s often protected and downplayed in Islamic countries. In this case, Ebrahimi is an Assyrian Christian.
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