A few months later I moved back to San Diego. Within a month I was back doing crystal meth and gang banging. On February 17, 2001 I was at a barbecue, I started drinking alcohol, smoking weed, and meth since 8.30 am. Later that evening around 9 or 10 pm I was picked up and was told that my little brothers had some problems at the pool hall. I ran back into the barbecue and armed myself with a 9mm handgun. On my way there, I took some drugs out of my glass pipe loaded with meth, to what I considered was sobering up. Upon arrival seeing my brother Dinh parked at a nearby laundromat, I asked what happened, He told me that Phuc Nguyen made some remarks, “F*&k Vietnamese that want to be Lao, f*&k Vietnamese from Laos gang.” This enraged me and I sought vengeance. I sent my other little brother and his friend home with my friend, and told my other brother to point out this Phuc guy. Circling the café’s parking lot twice, he wasn’t there. I told my brother to pull up on his friends. I asked, “who’s the one talking s*&t?” They denied knowing. This went back and forth for less than a minute, when I challenged them to a fight down the street. Some walked up to the car and I pointed the gun out of the window and pulled the trigger. The gun was on safety. I pulled it back and took it off safety. By that time Dat Nguyen, Nhan Tran, Hoang Le, Binh Vu, Anh Nguyen, Nam Bui and Khac Tuan were running for cover or ducking behind vehicles. I shot 9 times trying to end their lives. Me and my brother drove off and I told him to drive to Jimmy’s house. I asked him to hold the gun, but he refused. We left and I told my brothers to go into an alley near a dumpster. I wiped down the gun and threw it away.
Br Carmel Duca MC
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