Coty Beavers, 28, of Houston, Texas, was shot to death on November 12, 2012, after walking his wife Nesreen to her car and returning to their apartment. The killing was described as part of a series of honor killings carried out by Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, who objected to his daughter’s conversion to Christianity and her marriage to Beavers. Ali Irsan reportedly waited for Beavers and shot him; the violence was linked to an earlier murder of Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a friend who had assisted Nesreen with her conversion.

Ali Irsan was arrested and charged with capital murder in both deaths; his son Nasim Irsan was also implicated in the Bagherzadeh killing and later received a 40-year sentence. In August 2018 Ali Irsan was convicted and sentenced to death. The case drew attention as an instance labelled an honor killing and raised questions about cultural and religious conflict in violent crimes.

Did anyone know Coty or Nesreen, or have information about their lives in Houston before November 2012?