The family is from Pakistan and police have reported difficulties in the investigation of the crime.
These honor killings are becoming a constant problem for Western countries as well as areas in Iraq and Afghanistan, click here and here. Her mother was awakened by screaming and fled the house to call police. They later found Rashad in his car and his daughter upstairs dead from either blows with an iron or strangulation or both (both an iron and cord were found near the body). This is what passes for honor in the twisted world of some religious fanatics.
In August, I will be moderating a panel at the ABA annual meeting in New York on cultural crimes of this kind and how the legal system struggles to deal with them, click here and here.