Hmong Community Reacts To Murder-Suicide

  In the wake of a recent mid-day murder-suicide in Fresno, the issue of domestic violence is being thrust back into the spotlight. 33-year old Zhang Vang was killed by her 43-year old estranged husband Neng Moua in a downtown doctors office. That office re-opened today.  The two had five children together, and Vang was the mother of seven. The two were married when Vang was just 12 years old. She had allegedly suffered years of domestic abuse. The murder has members of Fresno’s Hmong community looking for a way to work with local authorities to offer help for victims and their abusers. Mai Der Vang is Hmong and a former president of the Central California Asian Pacific Women. She says the murder, and child bride marriage, raises complicated and difficult issues: