Pennsylvania mother is in custody after police claim she shot her two sons and then attempted to shoot her neighbour before fleeing the scene.According to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, Trinh Nguyen, a Washington Crossing, Pa., resident, was arrested Monday morning.
She was charged with three counts of attempted homicide and one count of possession of an instrument of crime.Local authorities claim Nguyen, 38, approached her 22-year-old neighbour outside his house early Monday morning and asked him to bring a box full of photos to her ex-husband, with whom the neighbour worked.The police statement alleges the neighbour accepted the box, but when they turned around “he saw Nguyen pointing a black revolver to his face.”“Nguyen pulled the trigger two times, but the gun did not fire,” the police report reads.
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She then fled the scene in a white minivan.After the neighbour called police, authorities arrived at the scene and entered Nguyen’s home, the police report details.Upon entry, both of Nguyen’s sons, ages 9 and 13, were found alive in their beds, but with gunshot wounds to their heads.