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留言时间：2010-07-27 00:33:21 |
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Fairfax man slain in California leaves behind 'perfect family,' wife says
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
On the day that Jinghong Kang was shot to death on a dark street in Oakland, Calif., after handing over $17, six students from China arrived at his home in Fairfax County, where they had planned to stay while studying the Bible at Kang's church in Dunn Loring.
It wasn't unusual for Kang to host students at his house in the Fair Oaks area, although his wife, three children and mother also lived there, his wife said Monday. And it also wasn't surprising that when a man and a woman confronted Kang with a gun last week, he gave them what little money he had without hesitation.
He was shot anyway.
"It was kind of a perfect family, to me," Wang said, "but suddenly he got ripped away from us. It's such pain, and I believe the pain will be forever." The couple have three sons, ages 10, 12 and 17.
Oakland police officers said they think the case might be part of a string of street robberies committed in the downtown area by a man and a woman who were captured on a surveillance video camera shortly before Kang was shot at 11:30 p.m. July 18.
Kang, 45, worked for ITT but had traveled to California that day for a job interview the next morning with Google. He had gone for a late-night dental appointment in Oakland with a friend he knew through their church, his wife said. The friend was standing outside Kang's rental car, helping him with directions back to his hotel, when they were approached by the robbers, police said. The friend was not hurt.
"I should have told him not to go," Kang's wife said. "I didn't want to move; the kids didn't want to move. He said it was just a job interview. He'd go just to check it out."
Kang was the youngest of three children who were born and grew up in Beijing, his wife said. That's where they met.
Kang received a degree in physics in Beijing in 1990 and then moved to the United States to attend graduate school at Eastern Illinois University. Kang and Wang married in 1991, and they moved to Blacksburg, where Kang received a master's degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in math from Virginia Tech.
The couple moved to Northern Virginia, where Kang worked as a network engineer for several companies, including Booz Allen Hamilton and, most recently, ITT. Kang lost his job at Booz Allen because he was unable to obtain a security clearance, possibly because of his Chinese heritage, his wife said. He had also been rejected for clearance at ITT.
"As a husband, I can't think of anything he couldn't do," his wife said. "He fixed everything: the house, the car, all the computers, the electronic equipment. I was completely dependent on him. I don't even know how to change the light bulbs."
A security clearance wouldn't be a problem at Google, Wang said. "He said the job really fit him," said Wang, a financial data analyst for Capital One. "He liked the weather in that area."
But the couple never really discussed moving to the Bay Area in any detail. They would do that when he got back.
Kang liked to take his family on vacations, to China and around the United States, and this summer they bought a season pass to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, his wife said. He was also involved with projects at his church.
Although he grew up in atheistic China, "he met the Lord here," Wang said, "and he believed. He's very, very faithful." He read the Bible to his sons every night. He lived a simple life without luxuries, his wife said, and owned only one suit, which he had taken to California for the interview.
Wang and a family friend, Tammy Cheu, described Kang as outgoing. He had a wide circle of friends, from work, church and his college days, and he remained in touch with friends in Beijing. "He was so approachable," Cheu said.
For several years, Kang had opened his home to Chinese students from Longwood University in Farmville, Va., when the dorms closed for Christmas break. "They all became good friends with him," Wang said, and he stayed in touch with them, even visiting them in China.
Some of those students were returning this summer to stay with Kang and study Christianity. "I sometimes envied how he cared for them so much. That's the way he lived. To whoever needs help," his wife said.
Oakland police and CrimeStoppers are offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest in Kang's death. A fund to benefit his family has been established at his church, the Church in Dunn Loring, 2317 Morgan Lane, Dunn Loring, Va. 22027. |
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留言时间：2010-07-27 00:17:57 |
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Second suspect arrested in Oakland homicide of Virginia man
By Sean Maher and Harry Harris Oakland Tribune
Posted: 07/26/2010 03:51:55 PM PDT
Updated: 07/26/2010 05:52:29 PM PDT
OAKLAND — Police on Monday arrested the second of two suspects they said robbed and killed a Virginia man July 18.
Police believe the gunman was George Huggins, 24, of Oakland. He was arrested around 2:45 p.m. Monday in the 2100 block of Curtis Street in Oakland.
Killed in the shooting was Jinghong Kang, a 45-year-old computer engineer whose plane had landed at Oakland International Airport just a few hours before the shooting. Kang flew out to interview for a job with Google in Mountain View.
Kang had just finished getting a teeth cleaning from a dentist friend just before noon when he was robbed and shot by two people near his parked car in the 1900 block of Webster Street.
On Saturday, police arrested Althea Housley, 33, of Oakland, who they said is Huggins' girlfriend and the second suspect. Housley already has made admissions of her involvement in the crime, police said.
She was arrested after someone recognized her from photos released in a television news broadcast. Housley told police they took $10 from Kang.
Police said they had been looking for Huggins since they arrested Housley but did not catch him until someone called them to the scene of the arrest, where that person was restraining Huggins.
The couple were held on suspicion of a similar robbery-shooting that happened June 21 in the 1700 block of Telegraph Avenue. A man and a woman, both 26, were sitting in a parked car around early in the
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morning when the man was robbed of his car keys and shot, police said.
Sgt. Mike Gantt said Housley told investigators that the victims were targeted because they didn't seem to be paying attention and that Huggins needed money.
The suspects were arrested on suspicion of homicide, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. |
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