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- Halema, Zahia, Hannan and Majeda Kassem were killed at home on Sunday
- Police are interviewing their father Maher, but he is yet to be charged
These are the 25-year-old twin sisters who were shot dead by their father in their Tinley Park, Chicago, home along with their mother and younger sister.
Halema and Zahia Kassem, 25, were killed yesterday morning along with their 53-year-old mother Majeda and 24-year-old sister Hanan.
Police are interviewing their father, Maher Kassem, but have not yet filed charges.
Halema Kassem was a pharmacy student who ran a henna business that she promoted on social media.
Halema and Zahia Kassem, 25, were killed yesterday in their home in Tinley Park along with their mother and younger sister
Zahia was a radiology student who friends described as ‘outspoken’ and ‘lighthearted’.
Friends say the family were devout Muslims who and Palestinian activists. Zahia, who also went by Zee, had recently visited Mecca.
Their mother Majeda devoted her life to ‘family and religion’, according to a fundraising site dedicated to completing a mosque in Mali in the family’s memory.
No details have been made public about their father, Maher, who remains in custody.
Majeda is described as a ‘mother-of-six’. In addition to her four daughters, she also has two sons who were not harmed.
Police were called to the house by the father on Sunday morning. He first told operators that his wife ‘had been shot’, but did not immediately confess.
When officers arrived, they found him in the home with the women’s bodies.
His motive remains unclear. Police say they had never been called to the house in the past. Neighbors were stunned by the quadruple murder.
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