A beloved art professor and his wife were allegedly murdered by their son in Ohio, police said.
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Pipo Nguyen-Duy, who taught studio art and photography at Oberlin College and Conservatory, was found dead along with his wife Thi Tran Phong, 56, inside a home near the college.
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Police said they were led to the crime scene after they responded to a call to the conservatory's parking lot to help Oberlin Fire with a vehicle that appeared to be on fire on Wednesday morning.
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When crews arrived on scene, they tried to locate the registered vehicle owner, identified as Daniel Jones, Fox 8 reported.
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When the 31-year-old suspect was not found, the police went to his home to conduct a welfare check.
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Inside the house, the 64-year-old professor was found dead on the first floor, while his wife was on the second floor.
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Both the victims died of multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
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Jones, Nguyen-Duy’s son and Phong's stepson, was later located in Shipherd Circle, a mile away from the crime scene.
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The Oberlin police took the suspect into custody.
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He was charged with six counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence, Cleveland 19 reported.
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Studio art and photography professor, Pipo Nguyen-Duy was found dead along with his wife Thi Tran Phong inside a home near Oberlin College and Conservatory
Daniel Jones, Nguyen-Duy’s son, was the prime suspect in the murder.
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He was arrested by the Oberlin police and was charged with six counts of murder
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The 64-year-old professor was found dead on the first floor, while his wife was on the second floor.
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Both the victims died of multiple gunshot wounds
‘I don’t know what could have transpired for someone to do that.
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I mean, to me he didn’t seem like he had a mean bone in his body,’ Shawn Stovall, a friend and neighbor of Nguyen-Duy, told Fox 8.
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Jones had earlier told residents that he was trying to escape from a cult a few days before the alleged murders, the outlet reported.
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‘He had tattoos on his forehead and his face.
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He looked wet and very disheveled, very nervous.
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He had a fanny pack or some kind of backpack that they’re looking for right now because they think that’s where the murder weapon is,’ Greg Poirson, an Oberlin resident said.
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Daniel Jones's initial court appearance took place on Thursday at Lorain County Common Pleas Court.
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Jones did not enter a plea yet.
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His bond was initially set for $1.5 million but Oberlin Municipal Court Judge Farah Emeka asked to double it 'given the egregious nature of the charges, WKYC reported.
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The Oberlin College and Conservatory issued a shelter-in-place order after the police informed them of the incident.
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The police lifted the order after it was confirmed there was no threat to the campus or community.
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Katherine Pahal, an Oberlin student, told Cleveland 19 that she smelled smoke before getting the alert.
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‘We knew something was up, but we didn’t know what it was,' Pahal said.
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‘It wasn’t until maybe a half-hour later that we got the call and e-mail telling us to shelter in place but still it didn’t tell us what was happening, just that something was happening.’
Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar later sent a note to students, informing them about the professor’s death.
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I am writing to share the tragic news of the violent passing of Pipo Nguyen-Duy.
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Tragedies such as this one intrude upon our lives in jarring ways.
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I am simply overwhelmed with sadness, and I am deeply concerned about the impact of the devastating loss of Pipo to our community.’
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During his years at Oberlin, he touched all of us through his passion for photography.
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In the days ahead, we will honor Pipo’s life.
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Our community will be hurting for a very long time.’
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The professor was a native of Vietnam and had immigrated to the US as a political refugee in 1975.
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He won many prominent awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies.
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He had taught at the university since 1998.
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The next hearing date has not yet been publicly scheduled following Jones' grand jury bind-over.
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