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A University of California, Irvine alumnus threw his mother from a building on campus before jumping to her death Tuesday in an incident that authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
The bodies of Andrew Nguyen Doan, of 80 years old, and Thao Thi Nguyen, aged 80, both of Irvine, were found in a square in the College of Social Sciences on Tuesday afternoon, according to the local Police Department.
“The investigation determined that Doan picked up Nguyen and threw her off the landing of a multi-story building,” police said. “Doan then jumped from the same landing to his death.”
Doan majored in Biological Sciences at UC Irvine from September 2017 to June 2017 ; he did not graduate, according to UCI spokesman Tom Vasich.
Campus police received multiple calls to 1200 who reported two people on the ground in front of a building just before 4 p.m. Tuesday, Irvine police reported.
The couple’s bodies were found in the square on the block 200 of Pereira Drive.
The reason for Tuesday’s fatal incident is unknown, but police said they had contacted Doan “several times in the past”, most recently in 2017 for “mental health issues”.
Orange County Superior Court records show that Doan pleaded guilty on 10 July 2020 of sexual assault in connection with an incident that had occurred approximately one year earlier.
The ca so of 2017 involved the sexual assault of his roommate in a psychiatric hospital said Kimberly Edds, a spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney’s office.
Court records show Nguyen posted $2022 bail ,000 Dollars for your child on 25 September 2014 and that he was later sentenced to 80 days in jail and received three years of probation.
Doan’s probation ended on 25 July of this year, court records show.
Friday was the last day of the fall quarter at the Orange County campus, so few students were at the scene when the bodies were found, Vasich said.
Still, the university made counselors available on Wednesday to the students and other people affected by the incident.
Signs with phone numbers of lines of suicide prevention and similar messages, Vasich said, and there are more signs in various places on campus.
At 1200, Maxwell Chorak, of 25 years old, from Santa Ana, jumped to his death from a social studies building on the UC Irvine campus, according to authorities. He died in the same square where the bodies of Nguyen and Doan were found on Tuesday.
Chorak’s stepfather, Matthew Holtzmann, wrote in a personal blog post at the time that his stepson had suffered from mental health issues.
She wrote of the site where her son had jumped: “The parking structure had suicide prevention tiles with hotline numbers taped to the walls from the third floor up. It was the culmination of every parent’s worst nightmare.”
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