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A Vietnamese father, Thy Ho, shot and killed his 2-year-old son Philip Nguyen after an 18-hour standoff with authorities. Ho, 43, is an ex-convict. Ho shot himself when officers entered the room. Both were taken the hospital in critical condition and later died.
Thy Ho, 43, shot and killed his 2-year-old son and himself. (Photo: Georgia Bureau Of Investigation)
Police said investigators are still processing the crime scene and the Gwinnett County medical examiner will determine the official causes of death.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the standoff began Tuesday night after Ho got into an argument with his girlfriend. The paper reported that the girlfriend’s teenage son called police at around 10 p.m. local time to report that Ho was threatening to shoot everyone at the home and then take his own life.
Ho’s girlfriend, her son, and “several other people” were allowed to leave the home, but the toddler remained inside with the suspect. WAGA reported that Philip Nguyen is the son of Ho and his girlfriend. The couple are not married.
Police officers rush a 2-year-old out of a Gwinnett County house after a hostage standoff ended in Gwinnett County, Ga., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. Police found the 2-year-old boy with a serious gunshot wound at a home where his father held him hostage during an 18-hour standoff in a neighborhood in Atlanta’s northeast suburbs, police said. (Photo: Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
A SWAT team sealed off the neighborhood where the “barricaded gunman” was inside the home in a subdivision about 35 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. Police announced that residents were being allowed back into the neighborhood Wednesday night.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Ho had served four months in a Georgia prison in 2012 after being convicted of theft by receiving stolen property. Two years earlier, he had been added to the state’s sex offender registry after being found guilty in Indiana on a charge of criminal confinement.
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