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Father Runs Over Daughter For Being Too "Westernized"

{Related Photo Here of Victim, Noor Faleh Almaleki}

KPHO CBS NEWS - Phoenix
October 23, 2009
by Edecio Martinez

PHOENIX -- Police are hunting for the man who ran over two women in a parking lot outside Department of Economic Security building in Peoria, authorities said.

According to a news release from the Peoria Police Department, Glendale resident Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, ran over his daughter Noor Almaleki, 20, and her friend Amal Edan Khalef, a 43-year-old Surprise resident, as they walked out of the building at 89th and Peoria avenues.

Faleh Almaleki ran over the women because he was angry with his daughter, police said.

He believed "she had become too 'westernized' and was not living according to their traditional Iraq values and had made threats towards her," according to the news release.

At the time of the crash, Noor Almaleki was living with Khalaf, police said.

Noor Almaleki has life-threatening injuries, police said.

Cynthia Diaz, who witnessed the crash, said Almaleki was unconscious and bleeding from the nose; however, Khalaf was able to communicate.

"I asked her specifically, 'Do you know who did this?'" Diaz said. "She said yes and she gave a name."

Police said Faleh Almaleki was last seen driving a gray or silver 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee with license plate No. ADS-9192.