Press-Telegram Long Beach
By Kelly Puente, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/02/2009
LONG BEACH - Authorities on Monday continued to search for a suspect in the slaying of a 76-year-old grandmother.
Leam Sovanasy was stabbed multiple times in her home in the 1400 block of Peterson Avenue, police said. A relative found her body at 11:04 a.m. Saturday.
Police said Monday that they have no new information and are asking for the public's help.
Relatives described Sovanasy as a survivor and Cambodian matriarch who kept the family together. She lost her husband and three children and fled Cambodia with her remaining seven children during the Khmer Rouge regime. Sovanasy and her family lived in a refugee camp in Vietnam before coming to the United States in the 1980s.
Sovanasy also experienced loss in Long Beach.
Her grandson, Sakorn Phan, was the city's first homicide victim of 2004, said Phan's brother, Danny Phan, 25.
Sakorn Phan was gunned down on Jan. 1, 2004, by gang member Reuel Dishon Hulbert, who killed three and injured two during a three-month shooting spree. Hulbert was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole.
Danny Phan said his grandmother took the news of her grandson's death hard.
"The family was depressed for a long time," he said.
The family was relieved last week with Hulbert's sentencing, Phan said. But now they are grieving another loss.
Funeral services for Sovanasy are pending, family members said.
Anyone with information on Sovanasy's death is urged to call LBPD Homicide Detectives Russ Moss or Teri Hubert at 562-570-7244.
By Kelly Puente, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/02/2009
LONG BEACH - Authorities on Monday continued to search for a suspect in the slaying of a 76-year-old grandmother.
Leam Sovanasy was stabbed multiple times in her home in the 1400 block of Peterson Avenue, police said. A relative found her body at 11:04 a.m. Saturday.
Police said Monday that they have no new information and are asking for the public's help.
Relatives described Sovanasy as a survivor and Cambodian matriarch who kept the family together. She lost her husband and three children and fled Cambodia with her remaining seven children during the Khmer Rouge regime. Sovanasy and her family lived in a refugee camp in Vietnam before coming to the United States in the 1980s.
Sovanasy also experienced loss in Long Beach.
Her grandson, Sakorn Phan, was the city's first homicide victim of 2004, said Phan's brother, Danny Phan, 25.
Sakorn Phan was gunned down on Jan. 1, 2004, by gang member Reuel Dishon Hulbert, who killed three and injured two during a three-month shooting spree. Hulbert was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole.
Danny Phan said his grandmother took the news of her grandson's death hard.
"The family was depressed for a long time," he said.
The family was relieved last week with Hulbert's sentencing, Phan said. But now they are grieving another loss.
Funeral services for Sovanasy are pending, family members said.
Anyone with information on Sovanasy's death is urged to call LBPD Homicide Detectives Russ Moss or Teri Hubert at 562-570-7244.
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