'They were too American': Trial begins against Egyptian father accused of killing teenage daughters

The trial of an Egyptian father in Texas who is accused of murdering his two teenage daughters for being "too American," began Tuesday.

Yaser Abdel Said, a Dallas based cab driver who lived with his family, allegedly shot his daughters Sarah, 17, and Amina, 18 in his taxi after telling them they were going out to eat for New Year's Eve 14 years ago.

"Help, my dad shot me! I'm dying," Sarah screamed in a 911 call after being shot. 

Then police received another call to report that two women were unconscious in a car in the parking lot of the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, Texas.

Authorities arrived on the scene and found the teenage girls dead in the father's cab.

According to the Daily Mail, the man allegedly committed the killings "out of honor," a Muslim practice known as an 'honor killing' in which people are killed for "shaming their family."

The father reportedly discovered that Amina had a non-Muslim boyfriend and because he thought they were becoming 'too American'.

If convicted, he faces life imprisonment. The elusive cab driver remained on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for six years.

He was found in Justin, Texas, where he was being held by his two sons. Both are serving time in federal prison for harboring a fugitive.

"My daughters were loving, caring, smart, loved everyone, would help anyone. They were some of the most amazing kids in the world and they didn't deserve what happened to them," mother Patricia Owens told The Dallas Morning News.

Earlier in 1998 Owens and the girls signed an affidavit about sexual abuse by Said, the police report stated. Owens divorced Said in 2009.