Police Struggling to Find Motive for Edmonton Killing Spree

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

Canada: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…
USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…

Edmonton Police is still exploring different perspectives to determine the motive behind the recent killing spree in Edmonton by 53-year-old Vietnamese man, Phu Lam. According to the police, Lam killed his wife 35-year-old wife, Tien Truong, her eight-year-old son, her parents, her sister, her three-year-old niece and an acquaintance of Truong’s last Sunday. In addition to that, Lam is also accused to have killed another victim next day, i.e. a 37-year-old woman, who is believed to be their family friend and not an intended target.

Thereafter, allegedly depressed Lam took his own life at a Vietnamese restaurant where he worked. According to the documents uncovered by local press, Lam’s wife had filed an official complaint against him for threatening to kill his family almost two years ago. In the legal documents, Truong had accused Lam of repeated violence over the years and threatening to kill the whole family after learning through a biological test that he was not the father of Elvis Lam, i.e. the eight-year-old victim.

According to a press conference by Deputy Police Chief, Mark Neufeld, it was confirmed that Lam saved two young children by leaving them at a relative’s house before killing again. According to the local media, the children, aged one and eight months old, might have been related to Lam. Neufeld stated that “there’s a very good possibility that those two young children were in the house, in the north end, when the homicides took place,” adding that “for whatever reason, the two children were spared.”