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| 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 Green—died as a result of the shooting.
Victims
The owner, Lam Van Son, was a Vietnamese immigrant who fought for the South Vietnamese military during the Vietnam War, but after the fall of Saigon, Lam, who was detained at a re-education camp at the end of the war, fled to Thailand by boat, before he immigrated to the U.S. Lam first met his wife Lanna Le Son in Lynchburg, Virginia, where they married in 1988 after five years of dating, and together, they had one son.
Like Lam, Abdelaziz Gren, who was born in Morocco, immigrated to the U.S. for a better life.
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