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Anaheim Man Arrested in Fatal Shooting

By HENRY CHU
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An Anaheim man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting at Fountain Valley’s Mile Square Park last year was found in Texas last week and sent back to Orange County for arraignment and a possible trial, authorities said Monday.

Chau Van Phung, 35, was arrested in Houston after sheriff’s investigators received information leading them to believe that he had fled to Texas after the shooting that killed one man and seriously injured another, Sheriff’s Lt. Richard J. Olson said.

The Sept. 8 attack reportedly involved five armed men who shot Hoa Le, 34, of Los Angeles and Ngoc Lee Phung, 26, of Anaheim. Le died in the incident, which Olson said was not gang-related.

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Olson declined to state what led authorities to believe that Phung had escaped to Texas.

Investigators are continuing the search for Hoang Xuan Nguyen, 23, Phong (Paul) Chuhang Phan, 19, and Hao Day Thai, 25, all of Anaheim.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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