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Police are looking for a Glendale resident who allegedly hit two pedestrians, including his own daughter, with a car in a Peoria parking lot on Tuesday. Police said the suspect, of Iraqi descent, may have run down his daughter because he believed she was becoming too Westernized.
At about 2:05 p.m., police officers and firefighters responded to a report of a vehicle striking a pedestrian in the parking lot of a state Department of Economic Security office near 91st and Peoria avenues, said Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, is suspected of running down his daughter and a friend in a grey or silver 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee with Arizona license plate ADS-9192, Tellef said.

Family and friends of the victims told detectives that the suspect had made threats toward his daughter because she was not living according to traditional Iraqi values, Tellef said. However, police cannot immediately determine whether that was the motive in the incident.

According to Tellef, Almaleki fled the scene and drove west on Peoria Avenue.

The two women were transported to a Valley trauma center where the suspect's daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, was reported to have life-threatening injuries and Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, had injuries that were not life-threatening.