A Maplewood man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting his son earlier this year died at a St. Paul hospital Monday, a little more than a week before he was to be sentenced.
Pang Se Vang, 84, was transported from the Ramsey County jail to Regions Hospital, where he died, said Sgt. John Eastham, spokesman for the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office. Eastham couldn't comment on Vang's cause of death, saying that details would need to come from the medical examiner's office.
Vang pleaded guilty in August in Ramsey County District Court to second-degree murder in the March 24 death of Chue Vang. Pang Vang had been scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 8.
The Ramsey County attorney's office will review dismissal procedures later this week, said spokesman Dennis Gerhardstein.
According to the complaint, Pang Vang called his pastor the morning of the shooting and said he was upset that Chue Vang, 36, would not pay to install cable in the home that Chue Vang owned and lived in with his parents and siblings. Father and son had argued, and Chue Vang told his father to move out. Pang Vang closed himself off in his bedroom and when Chue Vang opened the bedroom door, he was shot once by his father.
Another son wrestled the rifle away from their father, and family members fled. When police arrived at the family's home in the 1800 block of E. County Road B at 11:51 a.m., Chue Vang was dead in a hallway.
Pang Vang was bleeding from self-inflicted knife wounds to the chest and neck.
Nicole Norfleet • 612-673-4495
