Aboobaker Ebrahim, former board member of the Islamic Association of North Texas and a former guest columnist for The Dallas Morning News, died last month after an altercation with his son, 26-year-old Muhammad Ebrahim. Now the son is facing a murder charge, the DMN reports.
The incident happened in the far northern Lake Highlands area near Walnut Street and Black Walnut Drive on October 20. When police showed up, the father and son were yelling at one another.
“Aboobaker Ebrahim told officers there hadn’t been a crime and declined treatment for a minor scratch on his arm, police wrote in an arrest-warrant affidavit,” the DMN reports.
Police detained Muhammad Ebrahim in connection with another incident.
Before the elder Ebrahim died at Texas Health Presbyterian on October 22, his wife told officers that Muhammad Ebrahim had pushed her husband against a vehicle that evening, causing his head to hit the vehicle, the affidavit says. “She told officers she didn’t witness the altercation but her husband told her about it, and that they didn’t tell police earlier to prevent their son from going to jail,” the DMN reported.
Khalid Hamideh, a longtime friend and colleague of Aboobaker Ebrahim told the DMN that the man “was beloved by almost every single person that knew him.”
Muhammad Ebrahim is in jail. His attorney, Robbie McClung, told the newspaper her client is “grief-stricken” by his father’s death. Per the DMN, “she had no further comment Thursday, citing the pending cause-of -death determination.”
