Didn't find too much about the sheriff in this one, but it has some classics:
". . . said the gunmen were convicted felons . . . Nem is a parolee classified as a violent offender with convictions for assault, burglary and auto theft." and "It's unheard of in this community.", just to get you started [evil
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This URL also has some other links and a poll halfway down the page on the right: "Defend Your Home with Gun?"
Yes, stop criminals. 81%
No, too dangerous. 12%
Only if you're expert. 6%
This paper does a pretty good job.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/06/MN58497.DTL
Two gunmen behind a fatal botched robbery in an exclusive Alamo home were members of a Stockton street gang who carefully planned the invasion, police said yesterday.
But if the intruders were counting on little resistance, they got more than they expected when, carrying semiautomatic pistols, they burst into the home on Incline Green Lane shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday. The home's owner, Kim Fang, an accomplished marksman, shot one robber dead and critically wounded another, police said.
Fang, 49, was wounded during the gunfight and died hours later at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he had worked for eight years as a plastic surgeon until his retirement in 1994.
The dead robber was identified last night as Mesa Kasem, 22, and his wounded accomplice as Soknoeum Nem, 21, both of Stockton.
Contra Costa County Sheriff's Capt. George Lawrence said the gunmen were convicted felons and members of the Asian Street Walkers gang. They were being investigated for similar crimes against Asians elsewhere in the Bay Area.
Nem is a parolee classified as a violent offender with convictions for assault, burglary and auto theft.
Kasem, who served prison time for shooting a woman in Stockton, was subsequently detained behind bars as a ``lifer'' by the Immigration and Naturalization Service because he was considered a violent criminal.
Kasem, however, successfully fought his INS detention and was released.
Last night, police served search warrants at the Stockton homes where Nem and Kasem lived, but investigators declined to say what, if anything, was seized from the properties.
Investigators disclosed yesterday that they found a blue Mazda that Nem and Kasem had rented in Stockton, parked a block away from the Fang home. Inside, they found a handwritten note with Kim Fang's name and address. The suspects had used their own names to rent the car, police said.
Investigators also were able to provide a clearer picture of how the robbery attempt went awry.
Nem and Kasem were probably after jewelry or cash in the home, Lawrence said. There were no statements or demands from the two men when they rushed the house, police said.
One of the suspects was attacked with a frying pan by Fang's wife, Winnie Fang, who answered their knock on the front door. Winnie Fang, an anesthesiologist, was shot once in the chest but was expected to be released last night from Stanford Medical Center.
Her brother, Richard Law, was in the living room and came to his sister's aid when he heard her screams, struggling with the suspects before he was ordered to the floor. A nanny, Melee Jung, was pistol-whipped by one intruder.
``I think they were fighting for their lives,'' Lawrence said.
It was not until Kim Fang, working in an upstairs office, heard the commotion and came downstairs that the shooting started, police said. Exactly who fired first was still being sorted out yesterday, but investigators said Kim Fang mortally wounded Kasem with rounds to the head, chest and leg.
Nem, who was tied up with telephone cords by the family and held for police, is in Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley in fair condition. He is under arrest but is heavily sedated and has not yet been interviewed by police. He is expected to be charged with murder and robbery.
The Fangs' two children, ages 10 and 13, were not hurt during the attack and ran to a neighbor's home for help, Lawrence said.
Court records said the surviving suspect's nickname is ``Half Dead,'' and family members confirmed the unusual nickname, saying it stuck after Nem -- who lived as a young child in war-torn Cambodia -- survived when a bomb he was playing with exploded. The family moved to Connecticut in 1983 to escape the Khmer Rouge.
Standing outside Nem's home in Stockton, Nem's girlfriend and some of his relatives were stunned to learn of his alleged involvement in Fang's death when informed by The Chronicle yesterday. Nem's 15- year-old sister, Sophoem Nem, acknowledged that her brother had been a gang member since his early teens but said he had recently been trying to change his life and talked of becoming a monk.
Nem had been picked up Tuesday evening by a jailhouse friend known to the family only as ``Mesa'' and had left a note behind saying he was going to Sacramento, said Nem's girlfriend, who asked not to be named.
Kasem's relatives also expressed disbelief that he was involved in such a violent attack.
``My brother is a good person,'' said Prany Kasem, 32, a preschool teacher. ``He has a good heart. He wanted to start his life all over again'' after serving prison time for a gang-related shooting.
Kasem, told the Los Angeles Times in a September 1998 interview about INS detentions that he had been a gang member in Stockton since his teens and had served prison time for shooting a woman in Stockton. After completing his prison sentence in 1997, he was taken by the INS, which could not deport him to Cambodia and refused to return him to American society.
``The way things are going, I cannot even imagine freedom now,'' Kasem told the Times from a Lancaster jail.
But Kasem, who had arrived in the United States from Cambodia at age 3, and his family fought his detention.
``What are we going to do? Sit here and wait for my brother to rot?'' his sister Raksan Kasem had told the Times.
The brutal attack in Alamo shocked the community, where many homes carry multimillion-dollar price tags and residents value their privacy. Debra Fong-Kong, a parent at one of the local schools, said, ``It's unheard of in this community. The location of the house seems like the last place they would find. It's absolutely horrible.''
Kim Fang was a member of the Contra Costa Sheriff's Posse, a ceremonial fund-raising arm of the department. Fang had held a concealed weapons permit through the sheriff's department since 1989.
According to investigators, Fang requested permission to carry a gun because of unspecified threats made to him or to his medical practice that year. He had qualified to renew the permit since then without incident.
The Fang family was described by officials as distraught over the publicity in the case. Sheriff Warren Rupf, who knew Kim Fang and visited Winnie Fang at Stanford Medical Center, declined to comment on the couple, saying he was respecting the family's wishes for privacy.
Terry Fultz, the Fangs' former next-door neighbor, said Fang revealed details about his investments and other property to strangers.
``I wonder if Kim said one thing too many to somebody he didn't really know,'' Fultz said. ..
©2000 San Francisco Chronicle
They also have a message board devoted to just this topic, and the antis are getting HAMMERED. This from the SF Bay area? There is hope yet.
http://www.sfgate.com/vent/gunsathome/
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