Weapons 9mm handgun Date 29 December 2014 Location Edmonton | Perpetrator Phu Lam Location Edmonton, Canada Attack types Spree killer, Familicide | |
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Deaths 9 (including the perpetrator) | ||
On December 29, 2014, 53-year-old Phu Lam went on a killing spree in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He shot to death eight people, including two children, all of whom were his relatives. He then committed suicide at his restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan.
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Lam killed seven relatives, including two children under the age of ten, in a house in north Edmonton. Lam then went into another house in the Haddow neighbourhood of Edmonton and killed Cyndi Duong. He then drove to Fort Saskatchewan where he entered a Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant he owned and committed suicide by shooting himself. Police entered the restaurant at 7:34 a.m. on December 30, where they found Lam's body.
Perpetrator
Phu Lam (age 53) had a criminal record dating back to 1987, which included drug and violence-related offenses. At the time of the shooting, he was in bankruptcy proceedings and owed a large amount of money on at least a dozen credit cards due to a gambling problem. Lam was arrested twice in Edmonton, for sexual and domestic assault. The gun used in the shooting was stolen in 2006 from Surrey, British Columbia. In November 2012, a complaint was filed against Lam after he threatened to kill his ex-wife Thuy Tien Truong and five other relatives.