The 42-year-old Chicago father who was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for allegedly beating his teenage daughter to death said he did not trust her to go to prom, according to authorities.
Tinley Park police officers responded to the gruesome incident on Sunday afternoon and arrived to find 17-year-old Mia Maro’s heavily bruised body.
According to homicide detectives, the victim’s father, Mohammed Almaru, is not talking to them at all about his daughter’s death. Responding officers found Almaru inside his home, next to his daughter’s body, “with self-inflicted wounds to his wrist and throat,” according to a statement from police.
The statement also alleges that “Almaru had attempted to take his own life by ingesting pills and was rushed to Christ Hospital, where he received treatment.”
Officials have determined Maro died as a result of multiple injuries, and that her death was a homicide. Almaru remained in the hospital as of Thursday morning.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on May 9.
Maro and her father argued last week about her attending her school’s prom, FOX32 reported, citing court documents
On April 29, Almaru initially permitted his daughter to attend her senior prom, but later changed his mind, stating that he “did not trust her,” the court documents state.
The documents allege that Almaru sent an apologetic text to one of his sons Sunday, explaining that he “lost my mind” and “went out of control.”
Maro was set to graduate from high school in the coming weeks and wanted to pursue a career as a dental hygienist.
“On behalf of the entire Village of Tinley Park, I’d like to offer my sincerest condolences to everyone who knew and loved Mia,” Mayor Michael Glotz said in a statement. “By all accounts she was a lovely young woman at the very beginning of her life, a life that she will now never get to fulfill. To her family, friends and fellow students at Andrew High School, we mourn her passing with you.”
Read also: Chicago teen Mia Maro said she was afraid her father would ‘kill’ her days before her death.
