Posted on 12/27/2011 7:40:43 AM PST by smokingfrog
The crazed gunman dressed in a Santa suit who gunned down two families while they were opening their presents on Christmas morning was the father and estranged husband of three of his victims.
Aziz Yazdanpanah, who had separated from his wife in March, is believed to have opened fire at an apartment in Grapevine, Dallas - just after the family opened their gifts - before turning the gun on himself.
Just hours before the families were killed, the group had thrown a large Christmas Eve party at their ranch. Dozens of friends and relatives celebrated late into the night, according to WFAA8.com.
Friends say Yazdanpanah, 56, likely showed up unexpectedly the next morning as he had not been invited to the party.
The victims have been identified as Nasrin Rahmaty, 55, the wife of the gunman, who worked at a nearby salon.
The couple's two children were also killed. Friends say Nona Yazdanpanah, 19, was a student at Tarrant County Community College and her brother, Ali, 15, was a student at Colleyville Heritage High School.
Yazdanpanah also killed his sister-in-law's family. Zohreh Rahmaty, 58, who was Nasrin's sister, and her husband, Hossein Zarei, 59. Their daughter Sahra Zarei, 22, was also shot.
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First pictures of family gunned down on Christmas day by estranged husband and father dressed in a Santa suit
Muzzie father upset that family had gone Western?
Aziz, Nasrin............
ROP. Figures.
Aziz.
So these were Scottish Presbyterians.
Iranian?
Is that name commonly used by the Amish?
Muslims celebrate Christmas?
Let me guess, they were Swedish Lutherians. Muslims are crazy.
Its how I'd expect they would.
This animal committed “Premeditated murder”. He went out and purchased a Santa suit, prior to committing the murder. This was planned for maximum psychological terror, and to catch his intended victims by surprise, unwarned and unarmed. Cowardly, sadistically and with intent on multiple homocide.
But, being as this is Great Britain, and he appears to be Muslim; I'm thinking immediate release and an official apology are already in the works.
Yes
nice....I’ll bet that you claim to be a good Christian too.....
The Gun made him do it.
Actually it was Texas and there won’t be a trial.
Gunman/father shot himself. This happened in Grapevine,TX.
The murderer killed himself.
We have nothing to indicate this was not an American family of Arab descent. Not a hajib in sight, which is an indicator they weren’t ROP.
Seeing the pictures of what are clearly just normal kids who are now dead breaks my heart.
Many of the comments on this thread are an embarrassment to FR and to human beings in general.
Iranian Christians— there are quite a few expatriates in the US, and they are harassed from “home” by the shiiteheads in Iran— for the property they may still have back in country, like farmland.
But the motive in this weird crime is not clear.
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