Nguyen Hong Ma

How they died

Suicide

Police said Nguyen Hong Ma broke into the home of his ex-wife. He'd first posed as a deliveryman, parked a rental van out front and carried a gift-wrapped piece of wood to the house. His ex-wife put her two daughters in the bedroom and called 911 when she saw Ma had a handgun. Ma's ex-wife and the girls were able to escape. Police said they tried throughout the day to contact Ma before finding him dead on the couch with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to his attorney, Ma, who'd immigrated to the US in 1981 after spending six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, had been feeling "hopeless" due to the bitter fight over his daughters and an impending job loss.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Nguyen Hong Ma, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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