Two individuals who died at UC Irvine in an obvious murder-suicide on Tuesday have been recognized by the Orange County coroner’s workplace as Andrew Nguyen Doan, 36, and Thao Thi Nguyen, 77, each of Irvine.
Nguyen’s loss of life is being investigated as a murder, and Doan’s as a suicide. Police had beforehand stated the 2 had been associated however didn’t instantly confirm their relationship on Wednesday.
Doan was a organic sciences main at UC Irvine from September 2017 to June 2019; he didn’t graduate, in keeping with UCI spokesman Tom Vasich.
Campus police obtained a number of 911 calls reporting two individuals on the bottom in entrance of a constructing simply earlier than 4 p.m. Tuesday, Irvine police stated. The pair’s our bodies had been discovered within the Social Science Plaza within the 200 block of Pereira Drive.
Friday was the final day of the autumn quarter on the Orange County campus, so few college students had been on web site when the our bodies had been discovered, Vasich stated. Nonetheless, the college made counselors obtainable on Wednesday to college students and others affected by the incident.
Indicators with telephone numbers to suicide prevention traces and comparable messages are posted within the stairwells close to the place the our bodies had been discovered, Vasich stated, and there are extra indicators at varied areas on campus.
In 2014, 25-year-old Maxwell Chorak of Santa Ana jumped to his loss of life from a social sciences constructing on the UC Irvine campus, in keeping with authorities. He died in the identical plaza the place Nguyen’s and Doan’s our bodies had been discovered Tuesday.
Chorak’s stepfather, Matthew Holtzmann, wrote in a private weblog put up on the time that his stepson had suffered from psychological well being points.
He wrote of the location the place his son had jumped: “The parking construction had suicide prevention tiles with sizzling line numbers cemented into the partitions from the third flooring upwards. It was the end result of each guardian’s worst nightmare.”
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