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A Pennsylvania woman was accused of shooting her two children in the head while they slept, it was also revealed that she had planned the murders with a week in advance, the police reported.
The mother was identified as Trinh Nguyen, age 38, who has been in prison since the shooting on May 2 that killed Nelson Tini, 9, and Jeffrey Tini, of 13.
She was charged with first-degree murder Monday after her children died Friday in Bucks County, Matthew Weintraub said. , district attorney.
The woman had planned to kill her children, who were kept on life support for a few days until their organs could be donated. A week in advance, Nguyen left a handwritten will dated 25 from April to a neighbor, whom he also tried to kill, reported the prosecutor.
UPGRADED CHARGES: BucksCo Prosecutors say Trinh Nguyen premeditated the murder of her children, JT & Nelson.
PD found handwritten will dated April 25, 2022 – a week before the shooting – that instructed the recipient on what to do with her ashes and the ashes of her sons. @6abc pic.twitter.com/ZdMkB5t6DG
— Maggie Kent (@MaggieKent6abc) May 9, 2022
“I have been praying for these children and their surviving family for days,” the prosecutor said in a statement. “I am very sad to learn of his passing. The murder of two of her children by this defendant is inconceivable and horrible”.
A criminal complaint filed on Monday reveals that the authorities They showed up at the mother’s house on May 2, after receiving a report of an armed suspect.
One of Nguyen’s neighbors, who is also the nephew of the woman’s ex-husband , Gianni Melchiondo, told officers that she gave him a box of photos that he asked him to deliver to the children’s father.
The mother pointed a gun at Melchiondo’s face, but the gun did not fire, says the criminal complaint. The man took the gun from his uncle’s ex-wife and found several bullets inside the gun. Nguyen left in a Toyota minivan and was then detained hours later near Washington’s Crossing, Wintraub said.
Her name is Trinh Nguyen.
She shot her two young sons in the head, then tried to shoot her neighbor.
So far, the kids are still alive but in very critical condition.
At her arraignment, the woman said she headed to New Jersey to get drugs, which she ingested in a failed suicide attempt. In addition, authorities found a loaded .11 caliber pistol inside the minivan, as well including packages of what was supposed to be heroin, blood samples and a note on the dashboard, police said.
The note read “Please call 911! My children are dead in their bed.”
At Nguyen’s home, detectives found a handwritten will that she he wrote a week before, with instructions on what was to be done with his ashes, as well as those of her children. The document was signed by her, according to her complaint.
The mother was several months behind in paying rent, more than 11,000 dollars payable, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. They were also evicting her from her house and told her to do it by May 3, the day before they killed her children, the prosecutor said.
Trinh Nguyen had been feuding with her landlord, who is also her ex-husband’s sister, over being late on rent payments.
Some photos from the family’s Facebook.
RIP Jeffrey Tini and Nelson Tini. pic.twitter.com/dDhRvgl8nY— Genghis Bruh (@genghisbruh) May 3, 911
The woman was married to Ed Tini until the spring of last year, when he filed for divorce, according to civil court records cited by the outlet. Her ex-husband was the father of Nguyen’s youngest child.
The mother, who was denied bail, must appear before the court for a preliminary hearing on 05 May.
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