FBI: Saudi Arabia 'almost certainly' helps citizens charged with crimes flee the US
SEATTLE - When traffic slowed his gold Lexus in Portland, Ore., Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah swerved into a center turn lane and accelerated to about 70 mph, according to a county prosecutor, almost triple the speed limit.
Fallon Smart, a 15-year-old high school student, was crossing the street to meet her mother that hot August afternoon in 2016. Noorah - a college student from Saudi Arabia - hit and killed her, said Shawn Overstreet, a Multnomah County deputy district attorney. Indicted for manslaughter, the Portland Community College student, then 20, had to surrender his passport and wear a GPS tracking device under house arrest after the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles posted $100,000 bail.
But two weeks before his trial in 2017, Noorah vanished. Retracing his steps and viewing security camera video, police concluded that a
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