“His main concern was the little girl with special needs that he thought he could get some help for,” Zahra Amiri said.
Now the father is paralyzed from the neck down in an Irving nursing home, unable to provide for his family.
Dallas Attorney Charles Bennett represents Mahir Amiri and his family.
“He struggles to speak. He can t really understand. We ve had to get a guardianship because multiple doctors have said he s incapacitated from these injuries,” Bennett said
In Dallas, Mahir Amiri worked as a security guard for Agile Security. He was sent to the Texaco store on Ferguson Road near 635 where there was a history of crime.