here is a comment in response to this story. it seems like the "real"
story.
hmoob3rdage at 11:48 PM PST Thursday, August 7, 2008 said:
From good sources THe real story
kid was in gang. dad said get out of gang. kid threaten dad. called
police on dad. dad gets arrested. dad comes out jail. dad angry and
frustrated. dad shoots kid in both knees to keep kid away from gang.
no legs to walk to be with gang. dad realize what dad has done. dad
shoots self. possibly rather die by his own hands then the kids hand?
Sherriff and Sac Bee did not do a thorough investigation of this
case.... just sad..... might have been different had the father been
white.
On Aug 16, 12:19 pm, cwjmem
hotmail.com> wrote:> 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
> Click on photo to enlarge
>
> 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
