Woman Did Not Take Part in Suicide Pact, Was Murdered
Police on Friday said that a woman discovered dead in a parked car with her former boyfriend was not a willing participant in what investigators had originally believed was a suicide pact.
The bodies of Doa Anh Can, 26, and Andy Vo, 33, were found inside a parked car in an industrial area behind a building at 170 Technology Drive by a delivery truck driver Thursday morning.
Police found a 12-gauge shotgun in the car with the bodies and both appeared to have been shot.
“It’s our feeling that he murdered her,” said investigative Sgt. Phil Povey. “Initially, it was felt that it was a suicide pact, but after some studying of the situation, it appears that she was not part of a joint suicide pact.”
Police say they believe that Vo either lured Can to the parking lot where the shootings occurred or that she agreed to meet him there.
“But from that point on, she was an unwilling partner,” Povey said.
Suicide notes were found at the scene and at Vo’s Midway City home which indicated that the murder-suicide was planned so the man “could have an eternal relationship with the woman,” police said.
Police said Vo was unemployed and that Can, a resident of Fountain Valley, was a student at Orange Coast College.
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