Father Of 4 GP Shooting Victims: "This Is The Worst Pain"
GRAND PRAIRIE (CBSDFW.COM) - The father of four people killed during Saturday's rampage at a Grand Prairie roller skating rink spoke out for the first time Tuesday about his family's tragedy.
"This is the worst pain that we have ever been through," Hoi Ta, a 61-year-old who endured life as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said through a translator.
Ta was surrounded by one of his surviving sons and the husband of one of his slain daughters.
They revealed more about the volatile relationship between Tan Do and his wife Trini which ended with Do pulling a gun at his 11-year-old's birthday party and shooting his wife, along with her brother, two sisters and a sister-in-law.
"All of us should take some measure of responsibility that we didn't do enough and this is what the result is," said Minh Ha, a cousin of the victims.
Tan Do killed himself after the massacre.
Four were wounded, including Ta, who says he's more concerned about the emotional wounds suffered by his 11-year-old grandson who witnessed the death of his parents on his birthday. "He held on to his mother and begged his father not to kill his mother but he yelled at him and chased him away."
Among the five victims killed along with Trini Do were her teenage sister, her brother and another sister, Michelle.
Michelle had just bought a home in Grand Prairie and was scheduled to move in this week. Family members say it was also a place where Trini planned to escape from her troubled marriage and their other brothers and sisters planned to move in as well.
A funeral will be held for the four family members Saturday in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
