Fullerton, CA: SoCal woman recounts attack that killed family

The Associated Press
Posted: 01/13/2010 10:48:18 AM PST
Updated: 01/13/2010 10:48:19 AM PST

FULLERTON, Calif.—A Southern California woman whose family was brutally killed and whose own throat was slashed in the attack recounted her memories of that day at a preliminary hearing.
Leela Dhanak took the stand Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court in Fullerton and described coming home to find her husband bloodied before two men grabbed her, slit her throat and knocked her out.
Iftekhar Murtaza is accused of killing Jayprakash Dhanak, 56, and Karishma Dhanak, 20, with the help of two other men.
Leela Dhanak was found on a neighbor's lawn severely beaten and unconscious.
Prosecutors allege that Murtaza attacked the Dhanaks because they were trying to prevent another daughter, Shayona Dhanak, from seeing him. The Dhanaks are Hindu and Murtaza is Muslim.
Murtaza, 25, has pleaded not guilty.
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