Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef said Noor died Monday. The other woman, Amal Khalaf, is expected to survive. Family members said Faleh Hassan Almaleki attacked his daughter because he believed she had become too westernized and was not living according to his traditional Iraqi values.
Almaleki fled after the attack but was arrested Thursday when he arrived at Atlanta's airport, where he was sent from the United Kingdom after authorities denied him entrance. He was returned to Arizona last weekend and taken to a county jail.
He had faced charges of aggravated assault but Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef said the charges will be upgraded in light of Noor Faleh Almaleki's death.
Almaleki has declined requests to be interviewed. Police said the Almalekis moved to Peoria from Iraq in the mid-1990s.
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