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ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE

Case # 16WF0868

Date: April 28, 2016

JUVENILE GANG MEMBER CHARGED AS ADULT WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR SHOOTING 42-YEAR-OLD MAN DURING ARGUMENT

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A juvenile gang member was charged as an adult today with attempted murder for shooting a 42-year-old man during an argument. Phillip Nguyen, 15, Garden Grove, is direct filed as an adult and charged with one felony count of attempted murder with willful deliberation and premeditation, and sentencing enhancements for the personal use of a firearm causing great bodily injury and criminal street gang activity. If convicted, Nguyen faces a maximum sentence of 32 years to life in state prison. The People will be requesting the defendant be held on $1 million bail at his scheduled arraignment tomorrow, April 29, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. in Department W-12, West Justice Center, Westminster.

At approximately 3:15 p.m. on April 26, 2016, Nguyen is accused of standing on the sidewalk near the victim’s stopped vehicle on Westminster Avenue in front of Bolsa Grande High School. The 42-year-old male victim was seated in the front passenger seat while a woman was seated in the driver’s seat, and a teenage girl was seated in the back. Nguyen, who is not a student of the high school he was near, is accused of getting into a verbal dispute with the victim and shortly thereafter shooting his gun and hitting the victim in the head and back. Upon seeing the victim wounded, the victim’s girlfriend drove away in search of a nearby hospital.

Someone in the victim’s car called the Garden Grove Police Department, who immediately drove to the scene. The dispatcher on the phone told them to pull over so the paramedics could transport the victim to the nearest hospital, where the victim was treated and is expected to survive.

Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Schunk of the TARGET Unit is prosecuting this case.

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TONY RACKAUCKAS, District Attorney

Susan Kang Schroeder, Chief of Staff
Office: 714-347-8408
Cell: 714-292-2718



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Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

By Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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