Video: Victim’s family hopes for justice, as White Center murder suspect pleads not guilty
We’re at the King County Courthouse downtown, where Cu Van Truong has just made his first appearance to answer the charge of first-degree murder in last month’s shooting at Seattle Roll Bakery. Truong is 25 years old and accused of murdering 24-year-old Jason Saechao in what court documents describe as an argument over jewelry and romance. Family members of the victim filled two rows in the courtroom.
During this morning’s brief hearing, Truong pleaded not guilty. Famliy members gasped and sobbed upon first sight of him walking into the glass-walled-off hearing area a few yards away from where they sat. Afterward, the victim’s aunt, Maeseng Chao, spoke with the media on behalf of the family, saying that today’s court hearing was the first time she had seen the victim’s mother cry. She said that they are having difficulty understanding why this happened, but she personally has faith in the justice system. We will add video from today’s hearing when we are back at HQ.
11:11 AM: We have added two video clips – first the hearing itself, less than two minutes long, which ended with a date set of January 26th for Truong’s next court appearance. The second is Jason Saechao’s aunt’s statement outside the courtroom after the hearing.
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January 12th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Rest In Peace Jason!
January 30th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
was there an update to this case on the 26th>
January 31st, 2012 at 12:47 am
The hearing on the 26th was postponed to the 30th. The court records system is shut down for the night but we’ll be checking later to see what happened, and assuming it was not postponed again, we’ll publish a short update.
February 2nd, 2012 at 9:56 am
looking forward to the update
August 8th, 2012 at 10:32 am
What’s going on with the case?
August 8th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Trial date now (tentatively) moved to November. I keep watch on the case, and nothing that has happened so far has been anything but routine – these kinds of delays are fairly common; the reasons included ongoing investigation, evidence amassing, etc.