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A Pennsylvania man fatally shot four of his family members and set fire to their family home, killing another relative trapped inside,Canh Le, 43, is accused of fatally shooting his younger brother Xuong Le, 40, along with Le’s wife Britni McLaughlin-Le, 37, and the couple’s two children, Natalya, 17, and Nakayla, 13, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said, citing medical examiners.
He said the incident began that afternoon when Canh Le got into a verbal argument with his niece, Nakayla, and left to retrieve a gun from his bedroom on the second floor. It’s unclear what the argument was about, Stollsteimer said.“Everybody wants to know why. I don’t think we will ever get an answer. Canh Le took that answer to his grave,” Stollsteimer said.According to Stollsteimer, Canh Le’s father, who also lived in the home, went outside and called police during the incident.
When police responded to the home, they were met with gunfire from Canh Le, who was shooting at officers from the third floor, Stollsteimer said. Two officersBoth of Canh Le’s parents survived the incident, and Stollsteimer described them as being “in shock.” “Everything that they had in this world was being destroyed,” he said. “My understanding is they came from South Vietnam after the fall of the South Vietnamese government, so they came here as refugees to build a new life and they did so in a beautiful community. And in one fell swoop, for some unanswerable reason, everything that they held dear is now gone.”to help support Britni McLaughlin-Le’s side of the family, she and her husband “were happily married for 17 years.
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