Loan Kim Nguyen
Loan Kim Nguyen
Loan Kim Nguyen was a 24-year-old mother of two, a former beauty contestant from the East Bay with a banker husband and ambitions of her own.
Raymond Gee, a 22-year-old mentally unstable man, investigators said, was from a hard part of East Oakland.
Investigators Wednesday revealed for the first time that they believe that obsession was a potential motive behind the brazen, bizarre crime that left the mother slain and the man dead by his own hand as SWAT members were closing in on him.
“We have confirmed that this was not a random attack, but rather an incident of stalking,” San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference.
One of Nguyen’s neighbors saw Gee near the home days before the shooting. Police said Gee — who has a history of weapons possession and was arrested for possession of a loaded weapon — had been using the Internet to pursue Nguyen for several weeks, but they refused to elaborate.
The stalking revelation came a day after Gee entered Nguyen’s home. Investigators now believe he may have sneaked through a partially open garage door of the San Mateo home as Nguyen’s husband left for work. Nguyen managed to text an alert to her husband and hand her two young children to arriving police officers just before being felled by what seems to be Gee’s fatal gunshots. By the time police smashed their way inside, Gee, too, was dead from a single gunshot to the head.
Steve