{"id":18457,"date":"2023-09-29T03:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T08:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18457"},"modified":"2023-09-29T03:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T08:46:25","slug":"california-college-employee-who-killed-retired-administrator-is-sentenced-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18457","title":{"rendered":"California college employee who killed retired administrator is sentenced to life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A California college employee who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/co-worker-charged-campus-slaying-cal-state-fullerton-administrator-n1046021\">fatally stabbed his boss<\/a>&nbsp;on campus in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuyen Van Vo, now 55, pleaded guilty to murder in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/former-cal-state-fullerton-administrator-fatally-stabbed-campus-parking-lot-n1044091\">the killing<\/a>&nbsp;at California State University, Fullerton, commonly known as Cal State Fullerton, the Orange County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He attacked Steven Shek Keung Chan, a retired college administrator who had returned to work as a consultant, on Aug. 19, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors said they believe Vo stabbed Chan to death because Chan had discovered he had stolen more than $200,000 from Cal State Fullerton through fake tutoring invoices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chan was stabbed around 30 times. Vo fled after the attack, which occurred around 8:30 a.m. in a parking lot, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/arrest-made-fatal-cal-state-fullerton-stabbing-n1045346\">\u2002<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/arrest-made-fatal-cal-state-fullerton-stabbing-n1045346\">was arrested<\/a>&nbsp;two days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vo pleaded guilty to murder and grand theft by embezzlement Wednesday, according to court records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/california-college-employee-killed-retired-administrator-sentenced-lif-rcna117990\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California college employee who&nbsp;fatally stabbed his boss&nbsp;on campus in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said Thursday. Chuyen Van Vo, now 55, pleaded guilty to murder in&nbsp;the killing&nbsp;at California State University, Fullerton, commonly known as Cal State Fullerton, the Orange County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said. He attacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22872,22873,1173,22874,2719],"class_list":["post-18457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-california-state-university","tag-campus-assault","tag-employee","tag-life-sentence","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18459,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18457\/revisions\/18459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}