b'victims:Nargis ZamanHaman ZamanAccused:Mohammad Sahi location:6200 Block ofDenain driveKings cRossingIn one of the strangest and hardest to explain crimes of 2019 in Corpus Christi, orbody of Haman Zaman in a denhe too had died of blunt trauma to the head. In a anywhere in the United States for that matter, Haman Zaman, 18, and his mother,bedroom, Hamans brother, Hamzah Zaman, 21, was severely injured but alive and Nargis Zaman, 47, were murdered by Mohammad Sahi, 72, the father of Nargis andhas since recovered. Initial statements that Sahi made to the police led to reports grandfather of Haman. CCPD officers were called to the 6200 block of Denain Dr. bythat he had attacked his family members with a stick. In fact, the weapon was an ax. a neighbor after Sahi came to his door and told him that he killed his family and toThe Pakistani native grew up in the countrys rural mountains and was in the United call police. When officers arrived, they found Sahi outside his home with blood on hisStates illegally, having overstayed a tourist visa, presumably to visit family members face and handshe calmly approached them and stated once again that he killedwho had emigrated here legally decades ago, and built successful businesses in his family. When officers began knocking on the door, Sahi told them that no onejewelry, hotels and real estate.would answer and to go inside, where they found his daughter, Nargis, dead on theIn his first court appearance, Sahi stated, through an interpreter, that the charges were living room floor from blunt trauma to the head. true and that he is guilty. However, in his first formal appearance after being indicted What might have initially complicated the investigation was the elderly Sahis veryin November, Sahi pleaded not guilty to the charges. It is not clear if his attorneys will poor English, adding to the confusion that such a violent crime would be called inpursue an insanity defense, but it is clear that even at his accelerated age, Sahis state from one of Corpus Christis most affluent neighborhoods. Police soon found theof rage enabled him to commit one of the citys most heinous crimes.TheCoastalBend.com THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEQ2.2020 73'