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发帖数: 2628 | 1 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday filed murder charges, with
allegations of robbery and burglary, against a man accused of killing five
people inside a San Francisco home.
Binh Thai Luc, 35, was charged with five counts of murder with special
circumstances of committing multiple murders, robbery and burglary,
according to court documents.
Luc faces an additional special circumstance of lying in wait in the death
of 32-year-old Yuan Ji "Vincent" Lei, the documents show.
Those enhancements make Luc eligible for the death penalty if convicted,
though prosecutors likely will not pursue that sentence, said Omid Talai,
spokesman for the district attorney's office.
The Vietnam native was arrested Sunday after five bodies were found Friday
at a crime scene so gruesome and complex that authorities took days to
identify the victims and a suspect. Police initially thought they were
dealing with a murder-suicide.
The victims were Lei; his parents Hua Shun Lei, 65, and Wan Yi Xi, 62; his
sister Ying Xue Lei, 37; and his girlfriend Chia Huei Chu, 30.
Prosecutors said in the court documents that a blunt instrument was used in
the killings but gave no other details.
They did not immediately respond to requests for comment after the charges
were filed.
Investigators have not discussed a possible motive and have released few
details about the circumstances surrounding the deaths, only saying they
believe the occupants of the house in the city's Ingleside District were
targeted.
The court documents also listed special allegations against Luc for
previously being convicted of felonies.
State records indicate he was arrested in the 1996 armed robberies of a
Chinese restaurant and a clothing retailer in San Jose and convicted the
following year of second-degree robbery and assault with a firearm. He was
in prison from 1998 to 2006, then served two years on parole.
After he served his sentence, an immigration judge ordered Luc deported to
his native Vietnam, but that never happened because the Vietnamese
government didn't provide the documents needed to remove him, federal
officials said. |
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