(Houston Chronicle) A year after a Jordanian man was sentenced to death in Houston for two grisly “honor killings” of his daughter’s close friend and husband, the man’s son pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling the trigger in one of the 2012 slayings.
The murder was one of two orchestrated by Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, who hatched a plot to kill his daughter and four others after she left the family’s rural Montgomery County compound and converted from Islam to Christianity.
Prosecutors had alleged Nasim Irsan fired the shot — at the urging of Ali Irsan and his wife — that killed his sister’s friend, 30-year-old Iranian activist Gelareh Bagherzadeh, in a Galleria-area driveway.
The younger Irsan, now 25, agreed to a plea deal Thursday morning at Harris County District Court.
