I could see (Luu) crying, screaming on the phone, and of course I could see his wife, sadly, lying on the floor with an increasingly large puddle of blood,” James recalled, during a recent interview. “I could hear kids screaming inside the house. James was the first police officer through the door. As he approached, he could see the man’s silhouette in the front window. James was three blocks from the home on Haswell Court, an upper middle-class neighbourhood in southwest Edmonton. Three hours in, dispatch received a call from a man saying his wife had been shot. Regan James was back at work after a four-day break for Christmas that night. I knew.” Shaughn Butts/ Edmonton JournalĮdmonton police Insp. “After a few minutes, I knew, she’s not coming back,” Luu said. He used his hands to try to staunch the bleeding and save his wife, but he didn’t know where it was coming from. He phoned 911, noticing blood on the floor. The man, later identified as 53-year-old Lam, and a stranger to both of them, was gone.Īll three children stood in shock around their mother, staring at her on the floor of the front entrance, Luu recalled during a recent interview. After a few minutes, I knew, she’s not coming back He ran downstairs, along with his eight-year-old daughter, and saw his wife of 16 years lying on the floor. Luu’s 10-year-old son opened the door with Cyndi close behind.Ībout 30 seconds later, Luu heard a bang. Duong was with their two boys on the ground floor. 29, 2014, when the doorbell rang just before 7 p.m. Luu’s children were finishing some school work on Dec. “You know how Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and broke into thousands of pieces? I’m trying to put my life and the kids’ (lives) together with pieces, and, you know, there are a lot of missing pieces.” SHAUGHN BUTTS / EDMONTON JOURNAL This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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