Man who killed the mother, the brother in the Diamond Bar is brought to life in prison for 40 years – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Pomona – A man who was convicted of killing his mother and younger brother in the Diamond Bar.

The jury found Eric Kwan, now 32 years old, guilty on April 21, 2021 on May 21, 2021, shooting and citing his brother Edward Kwan, and found him guilty of voluntary manslag on the same day of the lower day because he had made his mother Loretta Ho, 55.

In her last argument, the deputy administrative prosecutor Laura Uyeno described the murder as “planned ambush” and asked the jurors to condemn Kwan for first -time murder for murders and to find a special circumstance of several murders.

But Kwan – who testified to his own defense – said that he had gone into the house and fired shots at his siblings, of whom he said he shouted “dying” and pulling out a knife when he passed his brother's bedroom. He told the jury, he grabbed the knife and was attacked by his mother in the hallway in a dispute in which she was stabbed when he tried to get her from him.

“So, were you afraid for your life?” Defender David Fujimoto asked the accused.

“Yes,” replied Kwan.

The defendant said that he then thought about what he could do to help his mother and brother, but told the jury that he decided against the police because he didn't want someone to be involved in an illegal marijuana in the house to know that he was the one who noticed the authorities.

Kwan said that he finally moved his bodies to another bedroom and folding them into plastic containers because I was afraid that my mother and brother's spirits would come and attack me. “

He said he started trying to clean up the murders and said: “I thought that her mood could travel along the traces of blood.” He said he also changed the shoes he was wearing because he “had the feeling that something was sticking to me”.

Kwan said that he tried to explain what had happened to his father when he got home, but told the jury that his father “just shouted further”.

He said he drove around afterwards, threw the knife out because “it was something my brother tried to kill me” and then returned to the house, where the police had been called by his father. Kwan said that he later told an investigator that he killed his mother and brother, but explained that he protected himself at the time of the murders.

The public prosecutor's office Uyeno asserted that Kwan had quietly opened the door at home and that he “knew what he was doing” when he approached his brother's bedroom when his younger siblings slept and then shot him and then “executed” his mother by performing 10 sharp strength injuries.

“We have no self -defense,” said Uyeno. “There was no threat. Sleeping people are not threats.”

In her closing argument, she told the jury that Kwan stabbed his brother eight times when he died on the floor after he was shot six times and then folded her body like “garbage” and dragged her into a bedroom at the back.

The prosecutor told the judges that the accused thought that his brother was angry and he was annoyed by his mother.

“This was not a self-defense. This was an ambush,” said the deputy district prosecutor and added that he did not plan months-to-time.

Kwan's lawyer countered: “Assassin, Mr. Kwan not.”

The defense lawyer told the jurors that the events had taken place when the life of his client was “in danger” and that Kwan had gone through tensions as a child, as he and his brother, who were involved in a struggle that had been involved in a struggle, led to the fact that both brothers separate, separate them from their parents and from Kwan, from the houses, and from the houses, which was in the houses Houses reported.

“Ladies and gentlemen, while they are sitting here, it was a justified murder. It was self -defense,” Fujimoto told the panel and claimed that Kwan had “no choice but to defend himself.”

“He was involved in legitimate self -defense for his life,” said Kwan's lawyer. “There was no resolution.”

The defense lawyer questioned the public prosecutor's declaration of how the events probably occurred on this day and said Kwan bought a weapon for protection due to the antisien mood during the Covid 19 pandemic.