Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The two alleged victims were not seriously injured.
Falls Church city police are looking for two people who they say beat two people inside a business Sunday night in the 6700 block of Wilson Boulevard. Around 10:30 p.m., the suspects—a woman who went by the name “Lien” and a man who goes by “Si”—walked into the business and beat the two unidentified victims, according to a news release. Police said Lien and Si fled the scene in a white Lexus SUV with Maryland tags. Neither victim needed medical attention. The victims knew of Lien and Si in a limited capacity, according to the news release. Lien is described as an Asian woman standing about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds. There was no description for Si, other than he is a man. Anyone with information should call the …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The Falls Church police department supplied the following incident and arrest information. It does not indicate a conviction.
City of Falls Church Police are looking for a man who exposed himself in broad daylight to another person in a parking lot on Jan. 16. At about 2:30 p.m., a man in the parking lot of the Eden Center exposed himself to someone. Police don’t have any other details in the incident. The man was last seen wearing a gray tank top and has a goatee. In separate and unrelated incidents: City of Falls Church Police are investigating a report of a vehicle tampering in the 200 block of N. Maple Ave. on Jan. 15. Hiep V. Dang, 32, of Centreville and Dat T. Nguyen, 30, of Woodbridge, were charged with smoking in a non-designated area in the 6700 block of Wilson Blvd. on Jan. 15. Police also charged Nam D. Nguyen, 42, of Fairfax, with permitting smoking …
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Eden Center business owners say shootings are not gang related.
Thuy Ngo still feels safe working and hanging out at the Eden Center days after she found The Vu, 39, one of two men killed in shootings Saturday in Falls Church’s Eden Center, slumped over in his car. Around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Ngo was ready to leave her job as a cook at Café Metro. She said many patrons that night paid their bills and left after police told them to stay inside because of a shooting investigation outside. Ngo walked to her car out back of the restaurant but couldn’t move. Instead of beeping her horn to get the car blocking her in the driveway behind the restaurant, Ngo walked to the car and asked the man to move. From a distance, the man appeared to be asleep and slumped over the steering wheel. As she got closer, she …
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Murder third at Eden Center since 1997.
Saturday’s murder of Tai “Peter” Phan was the third since 1997 at the Eden Center and the 11th in the City of Falls Church since 1980. Susan Finarelli, spokeswoman for the city, said there were murders in 1997 and another in 2004. There were no details of those murders. She said The Vu, 39, the second man found shot to death at the Eden Center on Saturday, suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Tuesday, some people at the Eden Center didn’t know who Vu was but remembered Phan, 49, of Annandale, as a musician and overall good person. A makeshift memorial for Phan still sits behind the Banh Mi So 1 at the Eden Center. “He was such a nice guy,” Kenny Tran said of Phan. “I knew him as a friend.” Police responded to the shooting around 10 p.m…
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Police still don’t have a motive in the two shootings.
Tuesday, police identified the two men found shot to death Saturday night at the Eden Center. Susan Finarelli, spokeswoman for the City of Falls Church, said Tai “Peter” Phan, 49, was shot and then fled on foot across the Eden Center before being found dead behind a building. The Vu, 39, was found inside a car behind another building at the shopping center with a gunshot wound to the head. Finarelli said the same caliber handgun shot the two men and police are looking to see if the same gun was used in the shootings. She said witness descriptions of the shooter match Vu, and Police have established that the men knew each other. Police have not yet determined a motive, Finarelli said. SUNDAY: Two people are dead following shootings in the …
Vietnamese chamber president said Saturday’s victim was a musician.
The Vietnamese community is still trying to piece together the weekend shooting deaths of two men. Monday, Binh Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Washington, D.C., said one of the victims, identified by the Washington Post as Tai Phan, 51, of Annandale, was a good person. He said Phan was a musician and a computer programmer. The City of Falls Church has not released the names of the victims as they are trying to notify the families of the deceased. “The shooting is very unfortunate,” Nguyen said. “It’s important the public knows this was not gang-related. The victim was a very good person.” Saturday night around 10 p.m., City of Falls Church police responded to the shootings in the Eden Center and…
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Single acquittal, four dropped cases Wednesday give Vietnamese-Americans in Falls Church, Northern Virginia hope for equal rights.
Wednesday’s single acquittal and four dismissed cases were more than a celebratory occasions. For the several Vietnamese-Americans attending the trials of six people accused of illegal gambling, it was a sign of change. It was a moral victory in their eyes, one that made them feel equal to their American-born counterparts. Since the Northern Virginia Gang Task Force raided the Eden Center on Aug. 11 looking for illegal gambling machines operated by the alleged “Dragon Family” gang, the Vietnamese-American community in the area has felt labeled as gang members. “They say they busted a gang,” said Thinh Nguyen who owns a cell phone store in the Eden Center. “I haven’t heard anything about a gang.” Since the August raid, Vietnamese-American …
Friday, August 12, 2011
The Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force ends a months-long investigation at the Eden Center.
A police task force seized more than $1 million in a gambling raid on businesses at the Eden Center, a predominantly Vietnamese shopping district in Falls Church, investigators said Friday. Members of the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force arrested several members of the Dragon Family, a predominantly Vietnamese gang, police said. "The Dragon Family has been long established in the Eden Center," said Lt. Dan Hess, lead commander of the task force. "There were numerous arrests last night, most of those were misdemeanor arrests. There are approximately 20 felony arrests pending. There have been stabbings, shootings, extortion." Complaints about the Eden Center started in 2010, said Col. Harry Reitze, Falls Church Police chief. "Our …
McLparent
4:45 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
Dat, on evidence do the shop owners base their conclusion that these two murders were not gang related? None. Let the police do their job by performing their investigation. Clearly, the shop owners are biased because they don't want these two murders to adversely impact their business. more ›