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Mohamed sneaked into Khan’s southwest Houston apartment in November 2009 and stabbed the 43-year-old woman to death, reports the station.
Minhas admitted to paying Mohamed $4,000, reports the Chronicle.
Mohamed reportedly pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to 40 years after agreeing to testify against Minhas, the Chronicle reports.
Connie Bowen, a friend of victim Khan, told KHOU that Khan had a troubled relationship with her son, who was on the honor roll at his high school and was known to make announcements over the school’s public address system.
“She said enough to let me know that she was having major problems with him,” Bowen told the station. “He didn’t care about her. He was always getting mad at her because she gave him rules.”
Minhas also repeatedly demanded money from his mother, Bowen said.
“She tried to give him everything he wanted, but she didn’t make very much money," Bowen told the station.
Investigators have said Minhas resented his mother’s strict parenting.
“Danish felt he was a man and he did not like the restrictions his mother had placed on him,” homicide Sgt. Brian Harris told the station in 2010.
Harris called the victim a “strict Muslim mother who followed her faith... no different from any other parent regardless of what faith or background they are, who set out rules for their children to follow.”
In a 2010 interview, Minhas told KHOU he confessed to a crime he didn’t commit and placed blame for the killing on Mohamed.
“She was the perfect mom,” he told the station. “She raised me and my sister as being a single parent. She has been both a mother and a father to us. She went beyond her duties of being a mother to take care of me.”