Corina Knoll
Los Angeles Times (California, USA)
A 76-year-old woman stabbed to death in her Long Beach home was a well-known figure in the Cambodian and Laotian communities, her son said today.
The body of Leam Sovanasy, who lived with relatives in the 1400 block of Peterson Avenue, was discovered by a relative about 11 a.m. Saturday, police said. She had been stabbed multiple times in her upper body. Sovanasy was ethnically Laotian but born in Cambodia, said her son, who asked not to be named for legal reasons.
She arrived in the United States with seven children more than 20 years ago. Many other families from her village have since immigrated to Long Beach, forming what Sovanasy’s nephew, Sam Bunlot, called a local Lao-Cambodian community.
“Most of us, we know each other,” said Bunlot, 40. “She’s one of the elders, so she’s very popular.”
Grieving family members said they had no idea why Sovanasy, the grandmother of 25, would be attacked in her home. Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the killing, said Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Lisa Massacani.
“She devoted her life to Buddhism,” Bunlot said. “All she did was try to be a good person.”
The body of Leam Sovanasy, who lived with relatives in the 1400 block of Peterson Avenue, was discovered by a relative about 11 a.m. Saturday, police said. She had been stabbed multiple times in her upper body. Sovanasy was ethnically Laotian but born in Cambodia, said her son, who asked not to be named for legal reasons.
She arrived in the United States with seven children more than 20 years ago. Many other families from her village have since immigrated to Long Beach, forming what Sovanasy’s nephew, Sam Bunlot, called a local Lao-Cambodian community.
“Most of us, we know each other,” said Bunlot, 40. “She’s one of the elders, so she’s very popular.”
Grieving family members said they had no idea why Sovanasy, the grandmother of 25, would be attacked in her home. Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the killing, said Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Lisa Massacani.
“She devoted her life to Buddhism,” Bunlot said. “All she did was try to be a good person.”
7 comments:
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Yeah, but Potato Diggers doesn't know crap from reading. The more they read, the deeper, they bury themselves inside their own rhetorics and propaganda.
Khmer overseas talk trash on Khmer in Cambodia but they never come to accept that their own Khmer overseas in their community are the one that bloodsucking and robbing from each other. What is it called the Cambodian gangs in Cali, Tiny Rascals and the Asian Boyz? Khmer overseas need to look after their own community first if you want to criticize Khmer community in Cambodia. How can you be a self-righteous critic of othes when in your own backyard, there are Khmer gangs robbing Khmer people in the community and no one dares to report to the police because they are afraid that would create a bad image of Cambodian community. Watch the history channel Gangland episode on the Cambodian gangs in the US.
11:24AM kiss my pure Cambodian black ass ,do not bullshit to the bullshitter,get the life ah HUNSEN doggy.
Bunch in Hell, me old cunt. You deserved every drop of it for committing crime against Khmer People.
This killing is unacceptable under Buddha’s principle. The victim is a woman whom she is an old woman. She did not have eternal life same as every one of us. She would be departed from this world when her due date has come.
Why can’t a ruthless assassin leave her alone? Whoever decided to kill her should have considered twice before stabbing her to death. May be that killer got no sympathy and self-consciousness that she may have loved ones left behind when she dies; of course not!
What shameful for this tragic event especially to an old person with a defenseless!
May god bless her and guide her to another world.
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