Hai Vuong was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder
According to court documents Vuong was involved in an argument with a group of people at a gaming parlour. Vuong would leave and come back armed and opened fire hitting five people with Tien Van Nguyen, 27, and Hien Quang Tran, 16, dying from their injuries
Vuong would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Hai Vuong would be executed by lethal injection on December 7 1995
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Hai Vuong Case
A man who killed two people and wounded five others in a shooting spree at a pool hall was executed on Thursday by lethal injuection.
After being strapped to the gurney, Hai Hai Vuong, 40, smiled at three women in the witness room before he was put to death, nine years after the crime. The women, from a Houston church, had befriended him several years ago.
I hope whoever hears my voice tonight will turn to the Lord,” Mr. Vuong said. “I give my spirit back to him. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!”
He was the second condemned killer executed in Texas within 24 hours and the fifth in the nation this week. Florida had two executions and Missouri one earlier in the week.
On Wednesday, Texas officials executed Bernard Amos, convicted of the 1988 shooting death of a Dallas police officer, James Joe.
