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| After the shootings, Holsinger and Clagett left the bar with approximately $400 taken from the cash register. The four |
After the shootings, Holsinger and Clagett left the bar with approximately $400 taken from the cash register. The four victims — 42-year-old bar owner Lam Van Son, 31-year-old newly hired waitress Karen Sue Rounds, 32-year-old cook Wendel G. "J.R." Parrish Jr., and 35-year-old patron Abdelaziz "Aziz" Gren — died as a result of the shooting. | ||
| ===Victims=== | ===Victims=== | ||
| The owner, Lam Van Son, was a Vietnamese immigrant who fought for the ] during the ], but after the ] |
The owner, Lam Van Son (1952 – June 30, 1994), was a Vietnamese immigrant who fought for the ] during the ], but after the ] in 1975, Son was detained at a re-education camp at the end of the war, before he fled to Thailand by boat and immigrated to the U.S. Son first met his wife Lanna Le Son in ]; Lanna herself was also a Vietnamese refugee who fled from South Vietnam two days before the end of the war. The couple married in 1988 after five years of engagement, and together, they had one son. Son was the owner of three taverns, including the one where his death occurred. | ||
| Like Lam, Abdelaziz Gren (1959 – June 30, 1994), who was born in ], immigrated to the U.S. for a better life, and first settled in Virginia Beach since 1982. Gren, who completed his college education in Morocco, spoke fluent Arabic, French and English and planned to build his own company that mainly took charge of attracting Moroccan and French businesses to the U.S. Gren, however, died before the U.S. government approved papers for him to begin his business venture. | |||
| Like Lam, Abdelaziz Gren, who was born in ], immigrated to the U.S. for a better life. | |||
| Karen Rounds (June 3, 1963 – June 30, 1994) formerly worked as a nurse before she was hired as a waitress, replacing Holsinger after she was laid off from her job. | |||
| Wendel Parrish Jr. (August 7, 1961 – June 30, 1994) | |||
| ==Trials of Clagett and Holsinger== | ==Trials of Clagett and Holsinger== | ||
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1994 mass murder in a bar in Virginia Beach, Virginia| 1994 Virginia bar murders | |
|---|---|
| Location | Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States |
| Date | June 30, 1994 |
| Attack type | Murders by shooting |
| Victims | 4 |
| Convicted | Michael David Clagett, 33 Denise Holsinger, 29 |
| Verdict | Guilty |
| Convictions | Capital murder Multiple homicide murder |
| Sentence | Clagett Death Holsinger Life imprisonment |
On June 30, 1994, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Michael David Clagett and his girlfriend Denise Holsinger entered a local bar where Holsinger formerly worked as a waitress. The couple robbed and murdered four people, consisting of the bar's owner Lam Van Son, the bar's two employees Wendell G. Parish Jr. and Karen Sue Rounds, and bar patron Abdelaziz Gren. Clagett and Holsinger were both arrested and charged with multiple counts of capital murder, and for these charges, Holsinger was sentenced to life in prison while Clagett was sentenced to death. Six years after committing the slayings, Clagett was executed by the electric chair on July 6, 2000.
Murders
Slayings and motive
On June 30, 1994, a couple entered a local bar at Virginia Beach, Virginia, where they shot and killed four people during an armed robbery.
Prior to the slayings, Denise R. Holsinger, one of the robbers responsible, was formerly employed as a waitress at the bar in question.
After the shootings, Holsinger and Clagett left the bar with approximately $400 taken from the cash register. The four victims — 42-year-old bar owner Lam Van Son, 31-year-old newly hired waitress Karen Sue Rounds, 32-year-old cook Wendel G. "J.R." Parrish Jr., and 35-year-old patron Abdelaziz "Aziz" Gren — died as a result of the shooting.
Victims
The owner, Lam Van Son (1952 – June 30, 1994), was a Vietnamese immigrant who fought for the South Vietnamese military during the Vietnam War, but after the fall of Saigon in 1975, Son was detained at a re-education camp at the end of the war, before he fled to Thailand by boat and immigrated to the U.S. Son first met his wife Lanna Le Son in Lynchburg, Virginia; Lanna herself was also a Vietnamese refugee who fled from South Vietnam two days before the end of the war. The couple married in 1988 after five years of engagement, and together, they had one son. Son was the owner of three taverns, including the one where his death occurred.
Like Lam, Abdelaziz Gren (1959 – June 30, 1994), who was born in Morocco, immigrated to the U.S. for a better life, and first settled in Virginia Beach since 1982. Gren, who completed his college education in Morocco, spoke fluent Arabic, French and English and planned to build his own company that mainly took charge of attracting Moroccan and French businesses to the U.S. Gren, however, died before the U.S. government approved papers for him to begin his business venture.
Karen Rounds (June 3, 1963 – June 30, 1994) formerly worked as a nurse before she was hired as a waitress, replacing Holsinger after she was laid off from her job.
Wendel Parrish Jr. (August 7, 1961 – June 30, 1994)
Trials of Clagett and Holsinger
Execution of Clagett
Six years after the murders,
On July 6, 2000, 39-year-old Michael David Clagett was put to death by the electric chair.
See also
- Capital punishment in Virginia
- List of people executed in Virginia
- List of people executed in the United States in 2000
References