Prosecutors in Bac Giang northern province will seek indictments against Luyen, who killed three people and injured a little girl at a jewelry shop in the province on August 24, and four others for their role in the crime.

Colonel Nguyen Van Du, deputy director of the provincial Department of Public Security, today told Tuoi Tre the investigation agency for the case and the prosecutors will hold a meeting soon to give final decisions on seeking criminal charges against five people involved in the gruesome murder case, which has shocked the nation during the recent time.

On August 29, the police arrested local Truong Thanh Hong, 19, for failing to report to them about a suspect in the killing, Le Van Mien, 42, and Truong Thi Thom, 38, Le Van Luyen’s parents, were arrested for “hiding a criminal,” while Truong Van Hop, 47, the father of Truong Thanh Hong, 19, was taken in for “not reporting a crime.”

After a week of hiding, Luyen was arrested by the Na Hinh Border Guard Station in the Lang Son Province on August 31 and was escorted to Bac Giang Province in the midnight for questioning.

He told the police that he had acted alone in the killing and later threw two knives he used in his crime into a pool belonging to a neighbor of Luyen’s family, in Thanh Lam Commune, Luc Nam District.

The police this morning dried up the pool and found the knives.

Meanwhile the survived girl has claimed that she saw two men whose hair were dyed red and blue, broke into her house and killed her family members at the time of the murder. Police have pleaded they would not rule out any suspects.

According to police, early in the morning on August 24, Trinh Van Ngoc, the 37-year-old owner of Ngoc Bich Jewelry Shop, his wife Dinh Thi Chin, 35, and daughter Trinh Phuong Thao, 9 months old, were found killed.

Another daughter, nine-year-old Trinh Ngoc Bich, had her right arm chopped off by the attackers.

Several hours after the murder, the local health center informed the police that a young man had been brought by another for stitching up wounds on his hands.

The police later identified the injured man as Le Van Luyen, 18, of Thanh Lam Commune, Luc Nam District, and his companion as Hong, who was arrested later.

They found a sword and about 50 taels of gold (1 tael = 1.2 ounce) bullion, 12 gold chains, 199 gold rings, 59 necklaces, and five precious stones worth $135,000 hidden underground behind a pigsty in the house.

The police are further investigating the striking murder, which was conducted by a minor like Le Van Luyen, who, according to his birth certificate, was born on October 18, 1993.

Source: Tuoi tre