2014 Edmonton shooting

2014 mass murder in Alberta, Canada Phu Lam Edmonton shooting center 250 53.55 -113.469056 53.452139 -113.599278 Haddow house right Blue pog.svg blue 53.642694 -113.469056 Klarvatten house right Blue pog.svg blue 53.712417 -113.212472 restaurant left Blue pog.svg blue 9 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2014 12 29 Spree shooting familicide murder-suicide mass shooting, mass murder 9 (including the perpetrator) 0 Phu Lam 9mm semi-automatic handgun On December 29, 2014, 53-year-old Phu Lamhttps://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/shooter-in-edmonton-mass-murder-had-history-of-domestic-violence/ Shooter in Edmonton mass murder had history of domestic violence CTVNews 31 December 2014 2016-04-16 committed a shooting spree in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He shot and killed eight people, including two children, most of whom were his relatives. He committed suicide at VN Express, a Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan, Northeast of Edmonton.http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/31/edmonton-shootings-mass-murder_n_6400646.html Edmonton Shootings 'Planned And Deliberate,' Says Police Chief The Huffington Post 2016-04-16 Details Lam killed seven relatives, including two children under the age of ten, in a house in north Edmonton. Lam then went into another house in the Haddow neighbourhood of Edmonton and killed Cyndi Duong. He then drove to Fort Saskatchewan where he entered a Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, where he had after hours access in order to complete kitchen repairs, and committed suicide by shooting himself.Klinkenberg Marty Wittmeier Brent Klingbeil Cailynn Otiena Ellwand Ross Andrea Phu Lam identified as Edmonton man who killed eight people, including two children https://nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/31/in-my-39-years-of-policing-ive-never-seen-anything-like-it-edmonton-police-chief-on-mass-killings 26 March 2016 Postmedia Network Inc. National Post December 31, 2014October 2025 medicmedic Police entered the restaurant at 7:34 a.m. on December 30, where they found Lam's body. Victims The victims were: Klarvatten house: Phu Lam's wife, Thuy-tien Truong (known as Tien Truong), 35, and her eight-year-old son, Elvis Lam; her father Van-dang Truong, 55; her mother, Thi-dau Le, 55; her sister, Thanh-ha-thi Truong (known as Ha Truong), 33; her sister's daughter, Valentina Nguyen, 3; Viet Nguyen, 41, Tien Truong's male friend. Haddow house: Cyndi Duong, 36. Perpetrator Phu Lam (aged 53) was raised in Vietnam, and had lived in Canada since 1979. Lam had an extensive criminal record dating back to 1987, which included drug and violence-related offenses.Phu Lam identified as Edmonton shooterOctober 2025 medicmedic, National Post, December 31, 2014. He met his wife, who was 18 years younger, on a trip to his home country of Vietnam in 2000. The couple married six months later and she came to Canada in 2003. At the time of the shooting, he was in bankruptcy proceedings and owed a large amount of money on at least a dozen credit cards due to a gambling problem. Lam was arrested twice in Edmonton, for sexual and domestic assault. The 9mm handgun used in the shooting was registered in 1997 but was stolen in 2006 from Surrey, British Columbia. In November 2012, a complaint was filed against Lam after he threatened to kill his ex-wife Thuy Tien Truong and five other relatives.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/suspect-in-edmonton-killings-threatened-relatives-in-2012/article22275704/ Suspect in Edmonton murders threatened to kill relatives in 2012 January 2, 2015 The Globe and Mail January 3, 2015 See also 2014 Calgary stabbing Claresholm highway massacre References Category:2014 in Alberta Category:2010s in Edmonton Category:2014 murders in Canada Category:2014 mass shootings in North America Category:Attacks in Canada in 2014 Category:Crime in Edmonton Category:December 2014 crimes in North America Category:December 2014 in Canada Category:Familicides in Canada Category:2014 mass murders Category:Mass murders in Alberta Category:Mass shootings in Alberta Category:21st-century mass murders in Canada Category:Murder–suicides in Canada Category:Spree shootings in Canada Category:Suicides by firearm in Alberta