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A 46-year-old Garden Grove man accused of attacking his wife with a meat cleaver in front of the couple’s 7-year-old son was charged Thursday with attempted murder and other felonies.
Thang Van Nguyen also faces one count each of aggravated mayhem and domestic battery with corporal injury, along with sentence-enhancing allegations of great bodily injury committed during domestic violence, great bodily injury resulting in brain injury and paralysis and the personal use of a weapon.
Garden Grove firefighters called police at 6:46 a.m. Tuesday, saying Thang Van Nguyen was outside the fire station wanting to turn himself in for “murdering” his wife, according to Garden Grove police Lt. Bob Bogue.
The victim — 44-year-old Huong Nguyen — was found conscious in the couple’s home when the suspect took police to the apartment in the 12700 block of Flower Street, Bogue said.
She was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in critical condition to be treated for multiple stab wounds to the head, Bogue said. She remains in a medically induced coma “due to the dramatic brain injury,” he said.
Bogue said the attack occurred in a bedroom of the apartment, and the 7- year-old boy was in a bed at the time, possibly with his mother.
The child was placed in the care of an uncle. The couple’s 19-year-old son was also in the home at the time, but did not witness the attack, which allegedly stemmed from marital problems, Bogue said.
—City News Service
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