Suspect in Fatal April Carjacking Arrested : Violence: Teen-ager being held on robbery charges in Pittsburgh is linked to shooting of woman in Alhambra parking lot.

A suspect in the April 7 killing of a woman during a carjacking attempt in an Alhambra fabric store parking lot has been arrested in Pennsylvania on robbery charges there, police said Saturday.

Coung Minh Hoang, 16, was taken into custody earlier this month on suspicion of armed robbery in the Pittsburgh suburb of Dormont, but authorities did not link him to the shooting of real estate agent Kathy May Lee, 27, of Monterey Park because he gave a fake name and age, said Sgt. Gus Melis of the Dormont Police Department.

After police received a tip from a Los Angeles informant, Hoang was identified through fingerprints.

“It’s a relief to know that not everybody gets away,” said Lee’s boss, Ramon Duran, president of the Montebello-based Dynamic Brokers. “The arrest is not going to do any good for the family or Kathy, but it shows that the system works.”

On Monday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will seek a warrant for Hoang’s extradition and to have him certified as an adult, Detective Jerome Beck said Saturday. Beck said he could leave Monday or Tuesday to bring the suspect back to California, if Hoang does not fight extradition.

Beck said the search for Hoang took place overseas as well as in many areas in the United States, including Pittsburgh. “I was on the phone the last three days actively talking with Pittsburgh folks,” Beck said.

With her wedding only a month away, Lee had taken the day off on April 7 to take care of preparations. After buying stamps for wedding invitations, she and her mother went to the House of Fabrics store on West Valley Boulevard to pick out material for her wedding dress.

Lee had put her Lexus sedan in reverse to complete parking when a gunman approached the vehicle, opened the door on the driver’s side and fired a single shot into her chest.

Los Angeles sheriff’s officials, through a witness’s testimony and undisclosed physical evidence, publicly identified Hoang as the prime suspect.

When Hoang was arrested in Pennsylvania, he said that his name was Dan Quoc Ma and that he was 19--a lie that would later provide authorities a key piece of evidence to connect him to the California crime.

“Had he been booked as a juvenile, he would not have been fingerprinted (because Pennsylvania law does not allow it),” Melis said.

On Friday night, an informant from Los Angeles told authorities that Ma was actually Hoang, who had been arrested before. He was identified through fingerprints.

Hoang allegedly was one of three masked men--armed with an automatic rifle, a 9-millimeter pistol and a knife--who entered the home of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Dormont during a card party. The intruders robbed party-goers of $10,000 in cash and $10,000 in jewelry, Dormont officials said.

The two other suspects, one of whom is wanted for attempted murder, are at large, Melis said. “They knew the house. They knew what door to go into,” he said.

Linh Ly, 22, whose family hosted the party, said she had never seen Hoang before but was acquainted with the other two suspects because the Vietnamese community in the Pittsburgh area is small and “everybody knows what’s going on in the community.”

Victims recognized the voices of all three suspects, including Hoang, who was arrested while boarding a bus.