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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 13/12/2025

Muhammad Altantawi murdered his mother Nada Huranieh, because she was divorcing her misogynistic husband and wanted her daughters to have a life of their choice. Some of the critical evidence found against him was found in the washing machine because he didn't know how to run a cycle. How fitting.

Muhammad Altantawi was found guilty Monday of first-degree premeditated murder of his mother, Nada Huranieh. Prosecutors said he smothered her, threw her out a second-story window, then made it look like an accident. Todd McInturf, The Detroit

Only 16 years old at the time, Muhammad sided with his father Bassell Altantawi, then 46. He blamed his 35-year-old mother, Nada Huranieh, with splitting up their family with her rejection of traditional Syrian and Islamic customs, such as wearing a hijab and her perceived permissive raising of his two sisters, ages 12 and 14 at the time.

He believed his mother only wanted to take his father's 11,000-square-foot mansion and money. The parents had married in 1999.

Investigators believe Altantawi suffocated his mother, threw her body out a second-floor window of their home about 6 a.m. on August 21, 2017, and then staged it to look like an accidental fall.

Witnesses, including Altantawi's sister, Aya Altantawi, now 20, who testified her brother was becoming increasingly upset about their mother - whom he called "not a good Muslim" and referenced as a "dog" on his cellphone. He was also concerned his father might go to prison for insurance fraud, aided by his mother's pending deposition in the

case.

In 2016, Bassell Altantawi was charged by the Michigan State Attorney General with Medicare fraud at his Urgent Care Clinic in Canton. That March he entered a guilty plea to counts of Medicaid fraud false claims and two counts of health care fraud, which are felonies that can carry up to four years in prison.

He was spared prison time but had his physician's license suspended in February 2017 and was required to and did pay $277,953 in restitution, according to a spokesperson in the state attorney general office.

According to divorce filings, Altantawi - who once had an annual income in excess of $350,000 - found himself unable to work as a physician and subsequently meet support payments for his estranged wife and three children or "no longer able to support them in their lavish lifestyle" in Farmington Hills.

When his mother told him two weeks before her death that she was going to send him to live with his father, Muhammad said "You are going to get what's coming to you."

The offense carries life in prison without parole. Defense attorneys could not be immediately reached for comment.

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