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Home My WebLink About2014 04-02 Complaint: Maplewood man shoots, kills son; stabs himself MAPLEWOOD REVIEWcontinued from page IL ti Kaitlyn Rob O2 ' PR Review staffy Standoff An ;84 -year-old Maplewood man fir`' Pr �5 `� 4 Once J.V. dis.covexed,sg-. w allegedly shot and killed his son, g y his seemingly deceased after ' a disagreement over install- brother, Pang Vang-report- `" Y 'ing cable at . their ,home and .. then edly came out of the bed- a stabbed himself, tel a police room with the hunting negotiator he would settle the dis- shotgun. pate with. his son when they A shot' was fixed` into c reached the afterlife " court docu- the: ceiling, ; as J.V. tyres- g ments say.. : tled the weapon away. Pang Vang is facing a second- from him. degree murder charge in the killing J.V.called the police 4th a of his son, Chue Vang, 36, at their When officers arrived, Maplewood home on March - 24, he-' was standing .outside44, according to thecriminal - complaint holding the gun, which he u, filed in Ramsey County. ]district , then dropped. Court on Thursday, March 27. Other family members', Y . . Police received a call dust before incl' Pan Van 's g ,�. g g ��. noon March 24 that a man had been wife, a third son and that shot and the shooter had locked son s young child, left the himself in a bedroom at a house in home. The father. stayed.,. r the 11800 block of East County Road behind, barricading him- ,. r .-B 3rd Maplewood :. _ _ self in the bedroom." Becau a family members said A. Hmo:ng-speaking there were weapons in the house, police officer talked to the Ramsey County SWAT team , Pang Vang on the phone. , u was sumimoned.. it took more than ...The officer asked him kms: two hours for -authorities to enter to come out with his the home, and then carry out the hands up, but Pang Vang injured father :and .the deceased. son said he couldn't because Y ' . on stretchers. he stabbed -himself in filie chest. Cable dispute "He said he stabbed Police spoke to family members himself because h e • and a pastor to compile a description wanted to die," the com- of events included -irk the eoxnplaint: plaint says. Pang Vang -Shortly before the. shooting, Pang reportedly admitted to Maplewood` investigators and the Minnesota (Bureau of Crimin Vang spoke to his pastor, telling hien -the officer that he loaded' inspect the scene at the Maplewood. home.of Chue Vang, 36, vhe. was upset Chue Vang wouldn't the ghn, shot his son and. -shot and killed by his father, Rang Vang, 84, inside the house E pay to install cable television ser-. then stabbed himself March 24. vice in the house: The son purchased with a knife. APR — 2 . 2014 the home last summer, and shared 1 e office "he. . He told dead at the -scene.. Prior threats. respot it with his father, mother and other did not want to settle -the ,Pang Vang was :- trans- ...'fang Vang hasn't had Set -'family,members. issue in court. He would ', ported. to Regions Hos- previous contacts. with Vang Once .he finished the call, Pang settle the dispute. with his . petal -for multiple stab police, according, to not � - went to the kitchen where Vang g � son when they reached wounds to his chest and Maplewood Police Chief famil3 Chue uang_told his father he should the afterlife.'' neck. He was booked Paul Schnell. But the had a talk to.his sons about his problems. The officer, told the early, March 2.6,, but -father's relatives told logics The father went to his bedroom and father°to put his hands. remained at the hospital. police he had "made Chi closed.the door. on the bedroom window, Chue Vang's body was threatening comments the c: Chue Vang followed him, opened so officers could . find taken to the Ramsey .to.wards family members" in 201 the bedroom door, and .said, "Dad." him. Pang Vang com- County Medical 'Exam -, in'' the past. Pan A shot rang out, and Chue Vang's plied, and the SWAT iner's Office, where pro- Schnell- said even police to a mother saw him fall backward into team entered ,the house. visional reports deemed investigators are strug- fence the ham. They found the father in the death a -homicide: gling to understand how The :mother ran to get another the bedroom, covered in The medical examiner s. -a seemingly minor dispute Kai son, J.V., who was sleeping on a blood. report said. the shot tore urned deadly reach discovered couch upstairs, shouting to him that p g Authorities }.F=; _� r�'oh� lung, r��r r`he.'dspar is,;�Ghat and k their father had shot Chue Vang. Chue Vangg siody, in the r _ aeha_a a,n6-leixte� stn ager COs :t:he .�,xp1an-a_--r FQ�16, hanyvay nearby," �w.1 1a J.V. found his brother on the floor, - .: ;�, !14 h hxs_back� ... A 1o_n� t L�—PA ee invgsii�a- KFA Shotgun`. wound to 1he"" �`� bleedingand unres onsive. p .tors heard gave any indi- chest:. He was declared .` cation of this:v�n��^'-.,�r see Dispute on page 3