Boy Feared Kidnaped After Killing of Two in Fullerton : Nationwide Alert Issued for Suspect

Fullerton police issued a nationwide alert today for a man they believe killed his former girlfriend and a man in her apartment early this morning and kidnaped the woman’s 4-year-old son.

Police, alerted by a neighbor who said she heard shots shortly after midnight, found Trinh Tuyet Duong, 28, dead on the sofa in her apartment, and found Lewis Long Vu, 34, of Bellflower dead on a hallway floor. Both had been shot several times, police said.

The neighbor told police that she saw a man run from the apartment on West Franklin Avenue soon after the shots were fired and drive away. She said she did not see the boy with the man.

Police said the neighbor recognized the man as Dan Van Nguyen, 35, of San Antonio. Nguyen until recently had been Duong’s boyfriend and reportedly had been partners with her in an Orange County beauty shop. He had moved to San Antonio about 8 months ago, police said.

Suspect’s Phone Call

Police said that Nguyen is not related to the missing boy, Nam Phuong Nguyen, but they did not know who is the boy’s father.

Later in the morning, a reporter for the San Antonio Express-News received a telephone call from a woman who refused to identify herself but said the suspect had telephoned her to say, “I killed them, I killed them,” according to police.

Investigators said they did not know the relationship of the caller to the suspect.

“The caller asked me if I knew anything about a killing in Fullerton,” said the reporter, Jerome Kurry. “I talked to her a little while. She was reluctant to give any more information.”

Eventually, however, she gave Kurry Nguyen’s name and Social Security number, and Kurry called Fullerton police.

Restaurant Partner

Police said that Monday afternoon, Nguyen apparently flew to California from San Antonio, where he is a partner in a restaurant.

They said he drove away from the murder scene in the car his former girlfriend had been using but was registered to him: a gray, 1984 Toyota Cressida with a California license plate of 2 EQC 571.

Fullerton Police Capt. Lee DeVore asked anyone seeing the man, boy or car to telephone Fullerton police immediately at (714) 738-6800. He warned that the suspect should not be approached.

Police said they presume that the suspect took the boy because the boy cannot be located. They said, however, that neighbors did not see the boy at any time Monday.