The man ordered to stand in front of the public prosecutor in order to lead abuse to her suicide

Provo – A man was instructed to stand against homicide on Thursday after the prosecutors claimed that he had left a weapon in the eyesight of his suicide friend and spoke to her in a humiliating tone.

Although 20-year-old Rena Nguyen died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the prosecutors claim that it was Caleb Rees' relentless abuse during her “turbulent relationship”, which caused her to commit suicide. The public prosecutor quoted a 14-hour audio recording, that on the night when she died. October 2021 on your cell phone.

Her parents, Rose and Keith Nguyen, traveled from California to Provo from California and told the news media that she had “a future full of promises” that was stolen to her. Rees was only given against Rees almost three years after her death. The parents of Nguyens also submitted an illegal death penalty in which the police had abused the case.

The judge of the fourth district, Sean Petersen, ordered the Rees to face legal proceedings for manslaughter and possession of a controlled substance with the intention to distribute the second degree. Together with six, a firearm as a limited person and two additional possessions of possession of a controlled substance with the intention of distributing crime third degrees.

To support his decision, Peterson referred to the audio recording, in which Rees ordered his girlfriend to show him the text after she was called with the police who waved him up. He said Rees used a “mocking sound” and “singing voice” when he asked if she wanted his mother to get help or go to the mental hospital. The judge said he continued to mock the Rena Nguyen, humiliating and reducing what the judge regarded as a crisis on mental health.

Defense: “This does what he can do”

Thursday was the last part of the preliminary hearing for Rees, which consisted of questions from the leading investigator of the case, the police officer of the police officer, Jeffery Randall. He was asked by Rees' lawyer Jeremy Shimada before answering some last questions from the public prosecutor.

Shimada's questions made it clear that Rees was about 8 or 10 feet from the bed from the bed from the bed, which was only a few centimeters away from the bed. He argued that Rees moved it away from her.

He said Rees guilty of manslaughter and would have made the physical means available for the death of Rena Nguyens.

“This is not he that makes the physical means available. He does this what he can do at the moment,” said the lawyer. “At that moment he did everything he could to make suicide even more difficult for her.”

Randall also said about a welfare check, which was carried out by the police that night after Rena Nguyen sent a message to a friend who speaks about holding a loaded weapon on the head. The official made it clear that they did not attend them personally because a police presence can sometimes escalate things and people cannot force help.

Shimada argued if the police believed that the situation was solved, Rees would have thought reasonably.

He said that the very emotional situation in the audio recording in conversations between Rees and Rena Nguyen does not meet the requirements for the indictment against manslaughter.

Criminal prosecution: Rees 'deliberately ignored … risk'

Adam Pomeroy, deputy lawyer at Utah County, argued that Rees did not move the weapon out of the room if he had it. He said that if it were not about Rees' action, Rena Nguyen would not have “died in this way or at that time” and said he was the “immediate cause of her death”.

He said Rees was aware that Nguyen was suicidal, and audio shows that he constantly humiliated and humiliated his counterpart, he said he wanted them to leave the house in which they had both lived for a longer period of time.

“He deliberately ignored this risk and left it alone in a room with a loaded pistol; he even made this pistol aware by moving it directly from the bedside table into her line of vision,” said Pomeroy.

He argued that Rees did not have to provide the physical means to be guilty. He found that the parents were convicted in other states after they had allowed their children to have a weapon that was used in a shot in school, and he said what Rees did here was worse than that.

The lawyer said that Rees “did not die around the world, but for himself” and cited comments on the recordings of Rees that they did not want to remove weapons from the house.

Rees' next hearing will take place on June 30, when asked to guilty or not guilty for every indictment.