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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

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.

The owner, Lam Van Son, was a Vietnam War veteran who fought for the South Vietnamese military, but after the fall of Saigon, Lam, who was detained at a re-education camp at the end of the war, escaped to Thailand by boat, before he immigrated to the U.S. Lam, who settled down in Lynchburg, Virginia, first met his wife Lanna Le Son, and they married in 1988, and together, they had one son.

Trials of Clagett and Holsinger

Execution of Clagett

See also

• Capital punishment in Virginia
• List of people executed in Virginia
• List of people executed in the United States in 2000

References