Cali Today News - Theo nguồn tin của nhật báo The San Jose Mercury News thì vào lúc 9:32 phút sáng ngày thứ bảy 14 tháng 4, 2012, ngay tại khu đậu xe của quán café Starbuck, nằm trong khu thương mại Gould Center, góc đường McLaughlin và Capitol, ở thành phố San Jose, California, một người Mỹ gốc Việt có tên là Nguyễn Quốc Trung, 32 tuổi, đã bắn vào đầu của Emanuel Trần Phương Nguyễn (hay Nguyễn Phương Trần?), 39 tuổi, rồi quay súng bắn vào chính anh ta tự sát. Cả hai đã chết ngay tại hiện trường.
Hai người Việt bị chết qua vụ giết người – rồi tự sát ở thành phố San Jose vào cuối tuần qua
Cả hai đều là cư dân của thành phố San Jose. Theo nguồn tin của cảnh sát qua báo The San Jose Mercury News nói trên, thì đây là vụ giết người tự sát (murder-suicide).
Sau khi nghe gọi cấp cứu 911, cảnh sát đã đến và phát hiện cả hai đều chết trong bãi đậu xe của quán cà phê Starbuck nói trên.
Cảnh sát cũng phát hiện ra một bé gái mới 17 tháng của nạn nhân còn trong ghế car-seat trên xe màu bạc chỉ cách một vài thước kế bên hiện trường, nhưng cháu bé vô hại và hiện do Dịch Vụ Bảo vệ Trẻ Em quận hạt Santa Clara bảo vệ.
Cảnh sát cho biết còn đang điều tra nguyên nhân của vụ giết người – tự sát này, nhưng tiết lộ rằng hai người trước đây là một cặp vợ chồng.
Ai có tin tức liên quan đến vụ án này, xin vui lòng liên lạc trinh sát Erin Fong hay Detective John Barg thuộc đơn vị điều tra giết người của cảnh sát thành phố San Jose qua số điện thoại 408-277-5283. Những ai muốn được ẩn danh, cũng có thể gọi Ban Ngăn Chận Tội Ác của Silicon Valley qua số điện thoại (408) 947-STOP (7867), hay vào trang mạng http://svcrimestoppers.org
Nguyễn Dương
Police identify pair killed in San Jose shopping center murder-suicide
Mercury News, 4/16/2012
The identities of the father and mother who died in a murder-suicide at a San Jose shopping center, with their young daughter sitting nearby, were released Monday afternoon.
San Jose police say Trung Quoc Nguyen, 32, walked up to Emanuel Tran Phuong Nguyen, 39, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Gould Center, located near McLaughlin Avenue and East Capitol Expressway. He fired a single shot to her head, then turned the gun on himself.
Both Nguyens, who each lived in San Jose, were pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers found their 17-month-old girl strapped into a car seat in a silver vehicle just a few feet away. She was unhurt and was placed under the custody of Santa Clara County Child Protective Services.
Police say the motive for the murder-suicide remains under investigation, but they have said the two were a former couple.
"They're not releasing anything else right now," said Sgt. Jason Dwyer, a department spokesman.
On Monday, Nguyens' family members locally and in New Jersey were too distraught to talk. Her cousin, who declined to give his name, said her parents do not speak English.
"They're in a very bad mood right now," the cousin said.
Leaders in the Vietnamese community said they could not find out anything about either the suspect or the victim Monday. Councilwoman Madison Nguyen said officials and local community members are especially concerned about finding local family members for the sake of the child.
"We definitely want the child to be in a good place," Madison Nguyen said.
Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408 920-5705.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20408942/two-who-died-san-jose-shopping-center-murder
Police: Toddler found at scene of San Jose murder-suicide was victims' daughter
By Joshua Melvin, 4/15/2012
The 17-month-old girl found at the scene of an apparent murder-suicide at a South San Jose shopping center Saturday was the daughter of the man and woman, a former couple, left dead by the violence, police said Sunday.
The child was strapped into a car seat in a silver vehicle just feet away from the violence that erupted Saturday around 9:30 a.m. at the Gould Center, located near McLaughlin Avenue and East Capitol Expressway.
She was unhurt, and the Santa Clara County Child Protective Services took custody of the child.
Police said the man walked up to the woman in the center's parking lot and fired a single shot into her head before turning the gun on himself.
Authorities still haven't released the former couple's names, citing efforts to contact their next of kin, but said they are from San Jose.
Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
People at the shopping center were shocked by the sudden and public nature of the violence.
Grim-faced onlookers watched as police worked at the center on Saturday.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20402922/police-former-san-jose-couple-dead-after-apparent
Two dead in apparent murder-suicide in San Jose
By Mike Swift and Chris De Benedetti, 4/14/2012
A busy shopping center in South San Jose was rocked Saturday morning when a man walked up to a woman in the parking lot and shot her fatally in the head before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.
Officers responded to 911 calls at 9:32 a.m. and found a man and a woman both suffering from a single gunshot wound in the parking lot of the Gould Center, a shopping center at McLaughlin Avenue and East Capitol Expressway. Just a few feet away, strapped into a child safety seat in a silver BMW, police found an uninjured 17-month old girl who they believe was related to the man or the woman.
The man and the woman, whose identities were being withheld by authorities Saturday afternoon pending notification of next of kin, were both pronounced dead at the scene, said police Capt. Anthony Ciaburro said.
"There is no threat to public safety. We're confident at this point that it's a murder-suicide," Ciaburro said. "It's a relationship between the two of them."
Many people at the shopping center were shocked by the violent deaths in such a public, busy place. A crowd massed for hours to watch as the San Jose police and the Santa Clara County coroner's office investigated the crime scene, with the two bodies in plain view.
Corey Rentie, 48, of San Jose, was reading his Bible in a nearby McDonald's at the time of the shooting and was among the first to reach the bodies.
"I heard a pop," Rentie said. "I jumped up out of my seat to see what happened."
Rentie said he saw the woman lying face down on the pavement, about 20 yards apart from the body of the man. Both had been shot once in the head, Rentie said. He checked the couple, who are both Asian, to see if they were breathing. They were not.
"It must have been a small-caliber bullet because there was no splatter," he said.
The female, who Rentie said appeared to still be dressed in pajamas, was lying on asphalt between a Nissan Versa and a white SUV. The man's body was crumpled under a tree next to the silver BMW, which Ciaburro said police believe belonged to him. An orange shopping cart sat a few feet away.
The toddler was placed under the care of Santa Clara County Child Protective Services, authorities said.
Police cordoned off a large area of the shopping center parking lot, as homicide investigators photographed the bodies and picked over the scene.
For some long-term residents, the shootings were deeply disturbing. Patrons at a Taco Bell in the Gould Center could look out the window as they ate lunch and easily see the two bodies lying on the asphalt nearby.
"Normally, nothing goes on around here," said James Griffin, a resident of the neighborhood for more than 30 years, who stopped at the scene to try to figure out what had drawn the large crowd and more than a dozen police cruisers.
A number of stores in the shopping center, whose tenants include fast-food restaurants and a supermarket specializing in Asian food, were closed and were not expected to reopen until late Saturday, police said.
Anyone with information about the fatal shooting can call police at 408-277-5283 or 408-277-8900.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20397350/two-dead-apparent-murder-suicide-san-jose
