Nguyen Hong Ma

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.