A beloved Oberlin College professor and his wife were fatally shot in their Ohio home Wednesday, police said.
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His 31-year-old son has been arrested on murder charges.
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The body of Pipo Hieu Nguyen-Duy, 64, was found on the first floor of the couple’s home after police conducted a welfare check.
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His wife, Tran Thi Phong, 56, was found dead in an upstairs bedroom, according to a police incident report.
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Police said is appears both had been shot.
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Police identified the suspect as Daniel Jones, of Ashland, Oregon.
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At an arraignment Thursday, Jones asked the judge to use gender-neutral pronouns and said they go by the name Asia Nguyen-Duy.
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The investigation began just before 9 a.m. Wednesday, when Oberlin officers responded to the Oberlin College Conservatory parking lot for a report of a smoldering vehicle.
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The incident report states that the silver Toyota hatchback, which had Oregon license plates, had a boarded-up window and a pipe sticking out of the roof.
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Nguyen-Duy’s son was identified as the vehicle’s owner, but was not in the area.
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They were located two blocks away around 10:19 a.m. and taken into custody without incident, police said.
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Based on officers’ interaction with the son, police conducted a welfare check at the family’s home.
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Nguyen-Duy and Phong, the son’s stepmother, were located after police forced their way inside, according to the incident report.
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The son was charged with six counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence.
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An attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
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Asia Nguyen-Duy’s arraignment began with officers carrying them into the courtroom in handcuffs and ankle restraints, NBC affiliate WKYC of Cleveland reported.
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The prosecutor said ammunition was found in Asia Nguyen-Duy’s car.
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The prosecutor also said that Asia Nguyen-Duy had knocked on the door of an Oberlin resident and asked the woman to record a video to post online.
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In the video, Asia Nguyen-Duy said they were escaping a cult and said, “everything I did was on my own accord and I take full responsibility,” according to the prosecutor.
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Police were called to the area for a report of a disheveled person and found Asia Nguyen-Duy with scratches on their face and injuries to their arm and hand, the prosecutor said.
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Asia Nguyen-Duy told police they had killed their family and gave them the address to the family home, according to the prosecutor.
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The weapon used in the shooting has not been found.
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The judge set bond at $3 million bond, citing the egregious nature of the crime.
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Asia Nguyen-Duy’s biological mother declined to comment, saying she was too upset.
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Oberlin College remembered the elder Nguyen-Duy as a “beloved professor” of studio art and photography, who had taught at the school since 1998.
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“During his years at Oberlin, he touched all of us through his passion for photography,” the college’s president Carmen Twillie Ambar said in a statement.
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She called him “a cherished colleague and a vibrant presence in the classroom and throughout campus.”
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Nguyen-Duy was born in Hue, Vietnam, and immigrated to the U.S. as a political refugee, according to a biography on his website.
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He received several awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, and his work has been exhibited in public collections in the U.S., Europe and Asia, the website states.
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