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Police Seeking Suspects in 2 Shooting Deaths : Slayings: The weekend homicides in Anaheim and Garden Grove were unrelated.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Police were searching for suspects in separate weekend shootings in Anaheim and Garden Grove that left two men dead.

About 2 p.m. Friday, police found a 26-year-old Anaheim man on the floor of his bedroom in the 1200 block of Moraga Street.

The victim was identified as Martin Joseph Berryman. He was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound in the chest.

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Witnesses told police that an unidentified man carrying a shotgun entered Berryman’s home unannounced and walked to the bedroom.

After a brief exchange, the suspect, described as in his mid-20s, fired one round and fled.

Anaheim police said it was not known what prompted the shooting.

In Garden Grove, a 25-year-old man was shot at least twice in the chest about 6 p.m. Friday. Police said the victim, identified as Dung Hoang Chau of Garden Grove, had just parked his car in the carport of an apartment complex with his girlfriend in the 9000 block of Biola Lane when two men in a white Nissan Maxima parked nearby called out to Chau.

Police said Chau reportedly walked up to the car and was shot in the chest. The suspects then fled.

Lt. John Woods said it was not known whether the suspects referred to Chau by name. Woods said Chau’s girlfriend was not injured.

Chau was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange where he died at 11:45 p.m.

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