NGUYEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-08-25 published
Homicide is city's 47th
By Tim LAI,
Thursday,
August 25, 2005, Page A12
A 39-year-old Toronto man who died in hospital this week after
a fight with another man has become the city's 47th homicide
of the year.
The victim has been identified as Quang
NGUYEN.
The cause of
death was injury to the head.
Police say Mr.
NGUYEN was injured at about 3: 50 a.m. last Saturday
on 8th Street, near Islington Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard
West, when a man punched and kicked him, causing him to fall
and hit his head on the concrete sidewalk.
While the other man fled the scene, Friends of Mr.
NGUYEN took
him to hospital, where his condition deteriorated. He was then
moved to the intensive-care unit at St. Michael's Hospital and
put on life support, but he died Monday.
Peter CONSTANTINE, 30, of Toronto is charged with manslaughter.
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NGUYEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-16 published
NGUYEN,
Truong
Tho
Peacefully at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto on Sunday, March
13, 2005, in his 83rd year. Beloved husband of Nghiem Thi Tuong
and dear father of Nguyen Duy Louis (Ann
BUTLER,)
Nguyen
Thi
Kim Nga (Nguyen Duc Nam), Le Thi Kim Ngoc (Le Nhu Bich), Nguyen
Thi Kim Ngan (Nguyen Anh Dung) and Nguyen Hung (Nguyen Le Thuy).
He will be lovingly remembered by his eight grandchildren. Friends
may call at the Cardinal Funeral Homes, Annette Chapel, 92 Annette
Street, Toronto, M6P 1N6, (416) 762-8141 for visitation on Saturday,
March 19, 2005 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
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NGUYEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-19 published
600 attend boys' funeral
Brothers, 9, and 7, killed in swimming tragedy
By Huang NAILI,
Staff
Reporter
When the two little golden caskets covered with flowers were
lowered into the grave at noon yesterday, Truc
LE collapsed to
the ground.
She rested her head against a railing surrounding the grave and
reached out her right hand as if to touch her sons one more time.
Again and again, she called out the names of her two lost boys,
Larry and Calvin, her frail voice almost drowned out by sobbing
relatives and Friends.
The two Toronto brothers whose lives were claimed by a family
swimming tragedy last Sunday were put to rest side by side at
the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Thornhill.
More than 600 people, some of them classmates and their families,
crowded into St. Jane Frances Church on Jane St. for the service,
held in Vietnamese and English.
Truc LE, 40, sank to her knees right in front of the grave and
prayed.
A family member said Truc was asking her sons to bless their
brother Anthony, the only survivor of the tragedy at Guelph's
Belwood Lake Conservation Area, who is recovering at the Hospital
for Sick Children.
Soan Thi NGUYEN, 78, the boys' grandmother who helped raise the
children, also threw herself onto the caskets. Family members
said she has been crying since the accident and has lost her
voice.
Larry, 9, died Sunday after he drowned in the lake. Calvin, 7,
died Monday night at Sick Kids. His major organs were donated
to help other children live.
Theresa NGUYEN, 9, and her brother, Anh Tuan
NGUYEN, 12, listened
to the mass in the foyer outside the overflowing chapel. She
and the LE brothers attended St. Jane Frances Catholic School.
"I'll always remember him as a funny guy," she said.
"We are making cards for the boys. We painted pictures like two
little boys in heaven and we wrote words like 'We miss you' and
'We hope you have a peaceful time in heaven.'"
Mimi CHAU, 45, cried quietly in a corner of the foyer. She doesn't
know the family but said she came out of respect.
"I'm one of the Vietnamese boat people who made a long way to
have a life here in Canada, just as the boys' father. I came
because I feel so sad for the family," said
CHAU.
She read the news in a local Vietnamese newspaper while at Sick
Kids on Tuesday, where her 15-year-old daughter was receiving
a kidney transplant.
Noting
Toronto's
Vietnamese community isn't that big,
CHAU said
"whenever something like this happens, everyone would go out
to help."
When the priests were sprinkling the two caskets with holy water,
Theresa TRAN, a Sunday school teacher at the church, cried out
with the boys' aunt, Anh
LE.
The three brothers attended
TRAN's
Vietnamese language class
every Sunday and June 5 was the last day before summer vacation.
"That Sunday was the last time I saw them. They are charming
boys," TRAN said.
TRAN was preparing a gift her students in the last class.
Because the three boys were always very active and occassionally
naughty, she teased them, saying they wouldn't receive anything.
"They all begged, 'Oh, Miss
TRAN, please, please give us a gift.
We'll be good. We promise to behave in September.'"
TRAN finally gave the three kids a book, a pencil and a little
bear.
At the cemetery, Sabrina
CARD and Wladimir
ROBLERO of Pickering,
were special guests of the family. They were at the lake when
tragedy struck."I was just fortunate to be there. I was able
to grab Anthony and take him to the shore so we could start (cardio-pulmonary
resuscitation)."
"We feel sorry, deeply sorry for the family,"
CARD said. "We
were busy doing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation on Anthony without
knowing what was happening to Larry and Calvin." They were later
found lying under water.
Yesterday,
CARD gave the boys' mother, a kiss on the cheek. "I
told her she has to stay strong for Anthony."
Anh LE, the boys' aunt who was supervising the children, "is
having a very hard time," said a family member.
"The family is learning the lesson the hard way. But we should
all learn and teach water safety to (kids).
"The government should bring back swimming lessons to schools,"
he said.
Another mass will be celebrated in Vietnamese at St. Jane Frances
Catholic Church at 5: 30 p.m. today.
The Vietnamese community has set up a trust fund for the family
at a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch, transit number
05522, account 2681439. Tax receipts are available.
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NGUYEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-25 published
Man hurt in weekend fight dies in hospital
By Tracy HUFFMAN,
Crime
Reporter
A Rexdale strip club owner has been charged with manslaughter
after a fight in Etobicoke Saturday morning.
Police originally charged Peter
CONSTANTINE, 30, of Toronto,
with aggravated assault following an altercation on 8th St. around
3: 50 a.m. Saturday that sent Quang
NGUYEN to hospital.
NGUYEN, 39, was pushed, punched and kicked during the fight,
police said, and then fell and hit his head.
He was taken to hospital by Friends that morning and put on life
support.
Police said
CONSTANTINE and
NGUYEN did not know each another.
The fight began after a verbal dispute, police said.
The incident was reported to police Monday and
CONSTANTINE was
arrested for aggravated assault.
NGUYEN died Monday in hospital; an autopsy concluded the cause
of death was blunt force trauma to the head.
CONSTANTINE, an owner of Manhattan Strip on Westmore Dr., was
charged yesterday with manslaughter.
Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide squad at
416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477. Information can
also be submitted to Crime Stoppers online at http: //www.222tips.com.
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