but very loud? super loud. yes. very animated. she couldn t hide her feelings. about anything? about iran? about the traffic? anything. she loved church, playing piano, dancing, and most of all, her friends and family. gelareh bagherzadeh the center of attention in the best of ways. she was screaming all the time, running, jumping, even hugging people. it wasn t a normal hug. she s kind of hanging on your neck because she was so petite and so full of life. she was very sweet. and so that morning after gelareh bagherzadeh was murdered. kathy soltani could hardly believed it when she received a call. that was so surreal. one of our friends from our group, he called me and said, have you heard the news about
and i m thinking maybe she s doing that to me now, that she s like i m gonna show him how it feels. giving you a taste of your medicine. yeah. i just went to bed. he wasn t that concerned but over at her complex, neighbors had been calling 9-1-1. i just heard what sounded like three gunshots. right behind my unit and a car leaving suddenly and i m afraid to go out there and see what s happening. did you see the car leave? suddenly i can t see, my garage is behind my time. house i heard three gunshots and then, screeching tires. did you see the vehicle it came from? no identity. it just the screeching tires pulling out, you could hear. it all happened in the garages of the same complex where gelareh in her parents lived. soon a patrol unit for the houston police department pulled up to the rear driveway. this reporter for an nbc affiliate, casey r.i.p..
i thought nesreen irsan was a very good person. she loved the energy that gelareh bagherzadeh brought to the household. that s the time in your life, where the kids move out, and you buy two palmer indians. well i preferred it that way. it was nice. they were all happy. gelareh bagherzadeh had just spent christmas with the family. cory and cody s brother, remembered how thrilled she was. she had gotten a number of christmas presents for cory and for other people and was so excited to get them out. you re being selfish. i can open it. just this bottle of energy bouncing around, so happy, she wanted other people to be happy. that ball of energy is what friends like kathy soltani loved. she was full of life, she was funny, crazy, full of energy. everything packaged in a tiny body altogether.
where did you think it happened? i don t know. i could not connect the dots. it would take a long time to connect those dots. because this was a mystery almost too surreal to believe. and solving it would take not just years, but also at least one more murder. coming up. you look at that tape of gelareh at the gas station. anybody? with or no. does she seem anyway upset or worried? no sir. for cellphone, purse. all that stuff was still there. all. they re no. robbery what s going on? here we really don t. no someone does know something she said, i have a lot to tell, you if you listen to me. when dateline continues. dateline continues dad, it s a buick. i love that new alexa smell. it s a buick.
away. and we hung out for a couple of hours. she went home, and i told her when she got home to text me and let me know she made at home okay just past 11 pm, now heading home gelareh bagherzadeh round through the streets of houston s galleria neighborhood. as she drove she chatted on the phone, with her friends robeen bandar. she got closer to home, around the forward. as she pulled in the town house where she lived their parents for a moment she stop talking. when i asked are you there, she said hold on. she hugs and she said they re not moving. and then the phone dropped. and i heard a very loud scream, it was a scream like it was from the bottom of her lungs. like she shouted so loud. he dialed 9-1-1 another line as he sped to her house. i was with my friend, she was on the other, line i think she got a car accident. i said something she s not