Families Tell of Loss at Trinh Sentencing
The penalty phase in the trial of a man convicted of a shooting rampage at an Anaheim hospital began Monday with testimony from relatives of the three victims.
Kirk Premo, 32, son of West Anaheim Medical Center nursing assistant Marlene Mustaffa, the first person Dung D. Trinh shot on Sept. 14, 1999, said: “I’ll never understand. I’ll never understand why this happened.”
Mustaffa’s husband, Dave, said his wife “was a very beautiful woman, very gentle [and] always had something nice to say. She just had a way about her that people loved her.”
On Aug. 19, jurors took less than three hours to convict Trinh of the slayings of Mustaffa, 60, and Ronald Robertson and Vince Rosetti, both 50.
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