Canada - Six adults, 2 kids dead in Edmonton killing spree, 29 Dec 2014

[matou]

Truong applied for an emergency protection order, saying Lam had threatened to kill his entire family, but couldn’t find a weapon.


“He actually planned this two weeks ago to actually kill off her whole family and he was going to look for a gun but no one would sell it to him,” Truong told the courts through a translator. “And he’s just been keeping on threatening, saying that he’d kill her, her whole family and everyone that she’s associated with.”

Maybe his wife was friends with Cyndi through work. JMO

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/0...atened-to-kill-his-wife-and-her-whole-family/

 

[matou]

Pamela Roth ‏@SUNpamelaroth 4m4 minutes ago
Autopsy shows Phu Lam shot his ex-wife, Thuy Tien Truound, her 8 y/o son Elvis, wife's sister Thanh Truong and mother Thi Dau Le

Tim Alamenciak ‏@timalamenciak 6m6 minutes ago
On Monday at 10am Phu lam dropped off two children under 1 year old at a relative's house.

Global Edmonton ‏@GlobalEdmonton 8m8 minutes ago
Edmonton police confirm Phu Lam died of self-inflicted gunshot wound #yeg

Tim Alamenciak ‏@timalamenciak 9m9 minutes ago
dep chief Mark Neufeld says all victims were shot. Confirmed lone shooter is Phu Lam

 

[matou]

So Phu Lam dropped off the two babies AFTER he had murdered everyone.

 

[matou]

Tim Alamenciak ‏@timalamenciak 2m2 minutes ago
One-year-old daughter of Phu lam and Tien Truong and 8month old of Ha Truong Were safely dropped off by Lam at a family member's at 10am

Brent Wittmeier ‏@Wittmeier 7m7 minutes ago
Cyndi Duong's husband & children were in home when she was shot. Phu Lam was looking for someone else, police believe. #ejlive #bn

CTV Edmonton ‏@ctvedmonton 5m5 minutes ago
Edmonton police unsure how Phu Lam obtained his gun, which was reported stolen in BC several years ago #yeg

 

[matou]

Andrea Woo ‏@AndreaWoo 2m2 minutes ago
Edmonton police confirm mass murder suspect is Phu Lam, 53. These are the people he killed: pic.twitter.com/QBrJxtiSqK

 

[matou]

Janice Johnston ‏@cbcjanjohnston 15m15 minutes ago
Chilling. Phu Lam likely had 2 young children with him when he murdered 7. He spared them and dropped them off. #cbc #yeg

 

[matou]

Andrea Woo ‏@AndreaWoo 3m3 minutes ago
Cyndi Duong appears to be an innocent bystander. Phu Lam went to that home looking for someone else, police say.

 

[matou]

Andrea Woo ‏@AndreaWoo 6m6 minutes ago
1. Phu Lam is believed to have killed those seven people between 3 and 8 am Dec. 29. He may have had two young children with him

 

[matou]

Paul Moore ‏@PaulMooreCBC 1m1 minute ago
Here's a simple graphic showing relationship of #YEG mass murder victims and shooter Phu Lam. #cbc pic.twitter.com/MibajxLvVB

 

[matou]

Neufeld also outlined the timeline of the case. Tien Truong finished her last shift at work at 2 a.m. Sunday. Her sister Ha Truong sent a text message from the north-end home at 3:45.


Tien Truong and her mother failed to show up at work at 8 a.m. Sunday. When Ha Truong's estranged husband knocked on the door at that time, no one answered. He also noticed a black SUV parked outside.


The black SUV was seen briefly outside the home around 9:45 a.m. Monday. Lam dropped off the two younger children at a relative's home 15 minutes later.


Later that afternoon, Lam went to a home in southwest Edmonton. He left around 6 p.m. and went to the home of Cyndi Duong. Duong was shot and killed around 6:50 p.m. Police found her shortly afterwards while responding to a weapons complaint.


Neufeld said the manhunt started around 11 p.m. Monday. The SUV led police to the VN Express Restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan, he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...entified-all-died-of-gunshot-wounds-1.2888437

 

[matou]

What made Edmonton shooter Phu Lam so angry that he killed eight people?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/0...phu-lam-so-angry-that-he-killed-eight-people/

 

[sallye818]

What made Edmonton shooter Phu Lam so angry that he killed eight people?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/0...phu-lam-so-angry-that-he-killed-eight-people/

Wow ... thanks for all your work finding news and posting. This is a complicated case, took me a while to understand it. Still not sure about the lady Cyndi and what her connection may be. Those two small children were so fortunate...wonder why he decided to spare them?

 

[matou]

Lots of stuff here:

At 10 a.m., a full day after the murders were committed, a distraught Mr. Phu dropped off two young children – his one-year-old daughter with Ms. Thuy and Ms. Thuy’s eight-month-old nephew – at an adult relative’s home in north Edmonton, Supt. Neufeld said. It is believed the children may have been at the home at the time of the murders. That relative, concerned by Mr. Phu’s demeanour, called police to report that Mr. Phu was emotional, and possibly suicidal.


It is unclear if all the victims were in the house when the murders began, Supt. Neufeld said. Unspecified items in the house led the police to believe the murders were “planned and deliberate.”


During the late afternoon of Dec. 29, Mr. Phu visited a relative’s home, leaving shortly after 6 p.m. “That address is a 12-minute drive from Cyndi Duong’s residence,” Supt. Neufeld said, referring to the final victim, a 37-year-old mother of three. “Cyndi Duong was murdered at approximately 6:50 p.m.”


Police say there was a relationship between the Duong and Phu families and that Mr. Phu was looking for someone else when he went to the home. Ms. Duong “was simply an innocent victim of all this,” Supt. Neufeld said. One theory, according to police, was that Mr. Phu was searching for Ms. Duong’s father; however, they could not elaborate on a relationship between the two men.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...threatened-relatives-in-2012/article22275704/

 

[OliveEliot]

It's very hard to figure out why no one asked the police to check on the various victims' welfare on Sunday, when it must have already been many hours since their friends/relatives had contacted them. Also, the only explanation I can see for his not killing the two babies is that despite all his sickness or depravity he couldn't quite bring himself to shoot and kill such little children. MOO

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Canadian mass killer spared two babies even as he murdered eight estranged relatives, including TWO other children

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...two-babies-Edmonton-Police.html#ixzz3Nus5O3vz