Boy fights off girl's Muslim parents who tried to strangle her
Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack on October 18.
The girl, 17, who can't be named, ran away from home to Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, after her parents tried to put her on a plane to Iraq.
'Her father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county,' the girl told police.
Video showed Ihsan on the ground with his daughter in a chokehold outside the school, while classmates desperately tried to free her.
Ihsan and Zahraa both pleaded not guilty and are expected to go on trial in July.
The girl met her boyfriend at the school after she fled her home and school officials arranged for her to stay at a women's shelter.
However, the school did not arrange transport there, so the couple went outside to catch a bus, and spotted Ihsan's pickup truck in the car park.
The teenage boy explained to police in an interview on November 6 that a friend told him Ihsan had seen them and was heading their way.
'[The girl] was scared, shaking, and had a tremble in her voice,' Detective Julie Mullen wrote in a report obtained by DailyMail.com.
The boy stood between his girlfriend and her father as they tried to get to the bus as it arrived, and attempted to separate them when Ihsan tried to pull her away.
Ihsan then allegedly punched him in the head and he remembered falling down and everything going black.
'[He] said when he got up [the girl's] dad was "choking" her and [two other students] punched [Ihsan] in the face and people were yelling to call 911,' Mullen wrote.
'He started punching her dad in the face but he continued to choke [the girl] and said others were trying to pull her out while he continued to punch her dad in the head.
'He continued to punch Ishan until his "head got soft" and he got knocked out.'
The boy then helped his girlfriend off the ground, but she 'couldn't breathe' and didn't know what was going on.
Just as he was helping her to his feet, he alleged Zahraa and the girl's eldest sister Haneen, 21, came up behind them and pushed him out of the way to get to her.
He told police he tried to 'fight them off' by putting up his arm up and pushing them away, and in the melee the girl and Zahraa were pushed to the ground.
'Once [the girl] and her mom were on the ground, her mom put her arm around her neck and started choking her,' Mullen wrote.
He said that as he tried to pull the girl away from Zahraa, Haneen yelled 'what are you doing this?' at him.
The boy was eventually able to pull his girlfriend to her feet and then away from Haneen when she allegedly grabbed her, and fled towards the school.
The teenager suffered a 'boxer's fracture' to his finger as he tried to get Ishan off his girlfriend, and bruises and scratches on his head and face.
He wasn't diagnosed with a concussion but had symptoms such as sensitivity to light and headaches when he tried to watch TV or play video games.
His mother told police it 'took him several days to talk about the incident without crying'.
The boy also told police about an earlier incident at the school with Zahraa on September 16 last year where she attacked him.
The girl also detailed her father's alleged threats to kill her for dating an American boy, and refusing an arranged marriage.
'If I could kill you, I would kill you, but I can't do that. I can't do that because there's cops and CPS people involved right now because of you,' she claimed he said.
'And I can't touch you because you will immediately go to the school.'
The girl told police Ihsan another time told her he wanted to 'hurt her so badly but there are cops here' but also told her how he would 'kill her no matter what happens' and he 'did not care if anyone saw him'.
Police bodycam footage obtain by DailyMail.com showed officers arriving at the school and arresting Ihsan, who demanded to speak to his daughter.
'Just let me tell her to come home - not like that. If I tell her to go home, she will go home,' he insisted, but police ignored him.
Officers then had to deal with Zahraa and Haneen, who were hysterical and only left after Zahraa was allowed to speak to Ihsan.
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