1 Name: Rabbit!!bobtMnYj : 2014-02-23 11:09 ID:ssfq4IZz (Image: 2000x1333 jpg, 101 kb) [Del]
The snapshot, taken in December 2008, depicts a classic moment in the life of hardworking Chinese-American parents, one emulated by so many immigrants who come to the country to make a better life for themselves and their children.
On Saturday evening, the Christmas photo of the Suns was placed by a nervous family friend against a bouquet of daisies and yellow chrysanthemums at a memorial for the slain Cypress family. All four were murdered by bullets to their heads in their suburban home, authorities said.
Their violent deaths, which made headlines around the globe, have shaken the Chinese-American community. With investigators still trying to determine a motive and identify suspects in the killings, their fears are deepened.
"For us it's like, 'How could this happen, they are such good people," said the woman who places the family's photograph at the vigil, which was hosted by the Houston Chinese Alliance at a northwest Harris County community center near the family's home.
Fearful of the unknowns, the woman asked to be identified only as Mrs. Chu. She says she's among those considering buying a gun to protect herself.
"We don't really know much about what's going on and I think that's what most people are afraid of," Chu said.
The family was found shot and killed in their home in the 14000 block of Fosters Creek Drive around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30.
Authorities said the couple was last seen on Jan. 24. The boys, who swam and participated in Boy Scouts, last attended school at Sampson Elementary the day before.
Investigators are searching for an explanation for the shootings, Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia assured the crowd at the vigil.
"My office is dedicating all resources available to help find those responsible," he said. "I'm asking for your support to communicate about the circumstances surrounding this crime."
Brilliant employee
Russ Stevens, who supervised Sun, who worked as an engineer at Cameron International Corp., called the analyst a brilliant employee, who was easygoing and patient.
"You could see the joy on his face when he was solving complex problems," he said.
Billboards seeking information about the quadruple murder of the Sun family of Cypress in late January are on display on donated space in 14 population centers across Texas, thanks to Outdoor Advertising Association of Texas president and Clear Channel Outdoor executive Lee Vela of Houston as well as Lamar Advertising.
The locations are Clear Channel billboards in Houston, Dallas, El Paso and San Antonio and Lamar Advertising billboards in Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Beaumont, Laredo, Lubbock, Midland, Dallas,Tyler, Austin, Temple and Victoria.
The billboards promote the $70,000 reward being offered for information leading to the solution to the killings. They urge anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS.
The public can also report tips anonymously or not, by any language, through the HCSO iWatchHarrisCounty free phone app or to the HCSO homicide division at 713-967-5810.
“Thousands of people a day travel out of and into Harris County so the billboards will help us gather more information from the Texas public,” Sheriff Adrian Garcia said.
Investigators have narrowed the time frame of a quadruple murder in the Cypress area to 28 hours in the last weekend of January.
Mei Xie, her husband Maoye Sun, and sons, Titus and Timothy Sun, were killed in their house between 7 p.m. Friday, Jan 24, when the husband left work, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, when the boys failed to appear at a Boy Scouts event, the sheriff said. The bodies were discovered Jan. 30.
The billboard campaign is part of an intensified effort to elicit more information from the public that could help lead investigators to the killer or killers.
Details that may have seemed trivial at the time may be important now, the sheriff emphasized as he urged people to come forward with clues while investigators await crime lab results on evidence gathered at the scene.
http://www.khou.com/news/Community-raises-reward-offered-for-info-on-murder-of-Cypress-area-family-246252461.html
4 Name: The White Knight : 2014-04-07 01:27 ID:siIznaGU [Del]
A hate crime could be it, but another possibility is that the dad could have made some bad connections back in china, and was bringing his family to America to protect them, and unfortunately his past caught up to him.
That might be it.
Still sad none the less
