A man wanted in connection with a 2019 murder in the Denver metro area was sentenced to life in prison for a murder in Texas. The Colorado case is pending.
Abbas Abdal Abed, 47, fled from Colorado to Texas after he allegedly killed 31-year-old Chelsea Anne Snider at the InTown Suites along the 2900 block of W. Hampden Avenue in Sheridan on Dec. 2, 2019.She was a mother of three. Friends called her a beautiful person, inside and out. She had struggled with substance abuse and homelessness, but was loved, they told Denver7.
Family, friends hold vigil for murdered mom found in Sheridan hotel; former Uber driver on the run Abed, who was an Uber driver in Colorado, had lived in Houston previously and knew several people, including Abdulrahman Haris, 29. Both of them were refugees from Iraq who had come to Houston around the same time before Abed moved out of state, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Texas.
On Dec. 15, 2019 — less than two weeks after Snider's death — Haris allegedly gave Abed money and they were en route to a Walmart in southwest Houston with Haris driving when Abed stabbed him. Haris pulled over and ran out of the car and Abed took the car, the district attorney's office said.Abed was arrested two weeks later in early January 2020 at a homeless shelter in Houston, the district attorney's office said. The U.S.
Abed was convicted this month in the death of Haris in Texas. Late Thursday, he was sentenced to life in prison and must serve at least 30 years before he is eligible for parole, the district attorney's office said.“Houston is a big and diverse city, and someone on the run may think they can hide out here. But the cohesiveness of our community is our strength, and we will find and prosecute fugitives,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said after the Texas sentencing.
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