> Here the story of gang teenager!
>
> Lisa Vang, 20, tearfully remembers her father at the Vang home in
> south Sacramento today. Her father, Ka Thao Vang, shot his 16-year-old
> son Phong Vang and then shot and killed himself Wednesday. Randall
> Benton / rben...@sacbee.com
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> A 54-year-old man killed himself after shooting his 16-year-old son
> Wednesday, sheriff's officials said.
>
> Sacramento County coroner's officials identified the father as Ka Thao
> Vang.
>
> Officials said Vang and his son had been arguing, but don't know what
> prompted the shooting about 3:45 p.m. at 37th Street and 44th Avenue.
>
> Deputies arrived to find the teenager lying in the front yard,
> authorities said.
>
> The teenager, identified by a brother as Phong Vang, was hospitalized.
> Family members said he is expected to survive.
>
> After the shooting, Ka Thao Vang retreated into the house, where he
> turned the gun on himself. Deputies found his body in the front room
> with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
>
> Coroner officials removed the body from the single-story house late
> Wednesday as a crowd, many of them family members, including his wife
> and children, wept outside.
>
> Neighbors and family members said Ka Thao Vang was a gentleman, who
> always wore a shirt and tie, even while using a leaf blower.
>
> "He was always clean," said neighbor Lucy Spezzia. "I would never hear
> him scream at his kids. His kids would always help him clean."
>
> "They are good neighbors," said Patty Brown, who lives across the
> street.
>
> Brown and her husband, Eb Phromm, were among the first on the scene.
>
> Brown said the boy was sitting on a couch with a friend on the porch
> when his father came out and shot him.
>
> Before going back inside, the father tried to shoot his son again, but
> the gun jammed, Brown said.
>
> Brown said her husband jumped over a fence and tried to revive the
> boy.
>
> "We were not going to let the boy lay there to die," she said.
>
> Brown said Ka Thao Vang's wife kept saying "Help us!" Brown said she
> called 911, and while waiting, she heard another gunshot from the
> house.
>
> Jay Vang, 13, said his father did not like his 16-year-old brother
> going out a lot, but his father was a gentle person