Shane Nguyen and family. Family photo
Two people are under arrest for the murder of a Ft. Wayne, Indiana man, reports WANE-TV.
Shane Nguyen is remembered as a family man, Christian, and someone who went out of his way to help people.
A police officer spotted a suspicious vehicle and then saw a black van driving away. He gave chase, but police say they later ended the high speed pursuit as a safety precaution. However, the van crashed. Inside they found the body of Nguyen in a plastic bag.
Police used surveillance video to identify the suspects and later arrested Jacob Carreon-Hamilton, 20, and Mathew Cramer, 21.
Cramer faces a murder charge and Carreon-Hamilton for abuse of a corpse.
Father Nam Vu, a priest at Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church in Fort Wayne, remembers Nguyen fondly.
“He was able to bring people together,” Father Vu said to Fort Wayne’s NBC. “He doesn’t distinguish whether that it’s a Buddhist or Catholic, that was an Asian or a Black person, or a white person, or a Latino person. He respected them as human beings.”
He said Nguyen always said “yes” when people needed help. He also directed the Vietnamese choir at the church.
More than $260,000 has been raised through a Go Fund Me account for Nguyen’s family
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