Court records obtained by DailyMail.com describe how the pair met in person in 2022, and how Sadeghi hid some of their interactions from her husband.
Khodakaramrezaei befriended Sadeghi in the online chat room in late 2021. Lowe said the two met up in person last summer before the contacts escalated into harassing phone calls and threats in the fall. At one point he showed up at their home unwanted with flowers, Lowe said.
Sadeghi tried to cut off contact with Khodakaramrezaei but harassment continued, so she contacted police in December and again in January after his actions intensified
I don't think so. Some people are just batshyt crazy.
The victims installed security cameras and did "everything they possibly could" to protect themselves, he said.
The police chief explained the wife and suspect met on an app called Clubhouse, a podcast chat app for people looking for employment in the tech industry. Green said when things escalated, she filed the no-contact order against him to "disengage." Because of his profession as a trucker, officers were unable to locate him and serve the protection order.
According to the protection order against him, the woman met him in June of 2022 and the constant and harassing messages and calls started shortly after. The order claims that Khodakaramrezaei would leave several messages a day and a week, and would contact friends of the woman. He also was able to obtain her address and the addresses of her friends, despite never being told them, according to the order.
It is believed that Mr. Khodakaramrezaei was a listener to the audio stream featuring Ms. Sadeghi and later began communicating with her. They eventually became friends, until his actions escalated and she sought a no-contact order against him, the police said.
His interest in Ms. Sadeghi was made clear by messages he had sent her. “One message suggested he would love her forever and would burn himself in front of her house,” Chief Lowe said.
According to the authorities, Mr. Khodakaramrezaei had harassed Ms. Sadeghi over the phone for months, even calling her more than 100 times in one day.
“There were instances where the individual did show up at the location previously, bearing gifts,” the chief said, referring to Mr. Khodakaramrezaei. “There were items, I’ll say items of affection, gifts, that were mailed to the victim.”
Several times, he threatened to burn himself outside her home if she didn't see him.
"He said the only way he would stop contacting me is if he died. That is also in the voice messages he keeps sending me, that he won’t let me go and the only thing that will make all this stop is if he killed himself or died," the woman wrote in her petition to get the no-contact order.
Court records from Texas show Khodakaramrezaei leaves behind a 7-year-old daughter, who is living with his ex-wife.
Documents for the petition for the no-contact order indicated that Khodakaramrezaei has a history of domestic violence with his ex-wife.
Mr. Khodakaramrezaei once followed Ms. Sadeghi to a conference in Denver near the end of 2022 and visited her home the night before the shooting, the chief said.
Ms. Sadeghi contacted the police in January, and the department assigned the case to an investigator, but the police could not easily locate Mr. Khodakaramrezaei.
It was not until March that a judge issued a temporary protection order forbidding Mr. Khodakaramrezaei from contacting Ms. Sadeghi. The order, however, had not yet been served as of Friday.
Investigators had been attempting to find Mr. Khodakaramrezaei so that the police could arrest him, Chief Lowe said.