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Moo VON PAIK
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics:
Parricide
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders:
August 28,
1999
Date of birth: 1941
Victims profile: His estranged wife and three of her
relatives
Method of murder:
Shooting
Location: Korea Town, Los Angeles, California, USA
Status:
Committed suicide
the same day
Shot to death his estranged wife and three of her
relatives after she returned home to work out their marital problems.
He then turned the gun on himself.
L.A. murder-suicide
Koreatown: Couple had been having
marital problems
Press-Telegram
August 29, 1999
A man shot to death
his estranged wife and three of her relatives after she returned home to
work out their marital problems. He then turned the gun on himself,
police said Saturday.
Moo Von Paik, 58, opened fire inside
the Koreatown apartment just after 8:30 p.m. Friday, killing his wife,
her female relative and her two male relatives, Officer Jason Lee said.
Man kills relatives, estranged wife,
self
Contra Costa Times
August 29, 1999
LOS ANGELES A man
shot to death his estranged wife and three of her relatives after she
returned home to work out their marital problems.
He then turned the gun on himself,
police said Saturday.