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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

City Prosecutors File Charges in Jungle Murder

Posted by on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM

King County Prosecutors have filed charges against a 53-year-old Renton man for allegedly killing a homeless man in the "Jungle" last September.

Prosecutors say that on September 11th, Van Hoa Truong shot Major Lee Gay (I'm not making this up! That's his real name! Don't laugh!) after the two men got into an argument over a woman.

According to court documents, Gay had gone into the Jungle to buy crack before he encountered Truong. Documents say the two men got into a scuffle and Truong pulled out a handgun and shot Gay in the chest.

Truong told police he didn't mean to kill Gay but that if he hadn't, Gay "would have done the same to him."

Court records say Truong has previously been convicted on eight counts of theft and was found with 8 grams of crack during his arrest.

 

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1
"Gay had gone into the Jungle with Gay to buy crack"

sorry, what?
Posted by rococo on December 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM
2
what is the penalty for killing the undead?
Posted by Max Solomon on December 10, 2008 at 10:30 AM
3
#1: I know it sounds like an urban children' story.

A kind of "Busytown" for high density living:

Truong was eating all the crack! There was no crack for Gay. The people of Jungletown were mad at Truong.

If Truong eats all the crack, there will be no crack for others, says Gay!
Posted by Bananas Gorilla on Crack on December 10, 2008 at 10:32 AM
4
Two less shit bag crack head on the streets. Good riddance.
Posted by john cocktosin on December 10, 2008 at 11:02 AM
5
Who names their kid that? For real? That's child abuse.
Posted by Graham on December 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM
6
I recall from the news coverage that he had a birth name that was not Major Lee. I don't know if he actually chose to go by that or it was inflicted upon him.

Aha: Milton C. Lee.
Posted by leek on December 10, 2008 at 11:13 AM
7
The victim's name was Toto Lee Feike.
Posted by Eric from Boulder on December 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM
8
I laughed, sorry.
Posted by rustdyed on December 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM
9
Here's a preventable jungle death where they didn't file murder charges: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/3185…
Posted by Trevor on December 10, 2008 at 11:35 AM
10
How many people in the jungle carry firearms?
Posted by six shooter on December 10, 2008 at 11:44 AM
11
all of them, if they know what's good for them.
Posted by rococo on December 10, 2008 at 11:51 AM
12
My jungle love, yeah (oh-wee-oh-wee-oh)
I think I wanna know ya (know ya)
Jungle love (oh-wee-oh-wee-oh)
Girl, I'd love to show ya (show ya)
Posted by Morris Day & the Time on December 10, 2008 at 12:26 PM

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