The arrest of a 21-year-old man who allegedly sliced his wife’s throat, pulled her into a bathtub, and played her favorite music while she bled to death after she burnt his passport has been caught on camera by Florida police.
On June 21, about 9.45 a.m., officers responded to a report for a well-being check at Charter Pointe Apartments in Altamonte Springs, a suburb of Orlando.
Nhu Quynh Pham, also 21, was discovered dead in a pool of blood inside the apartment she shared with her husband, Xichen Yang, by responding law enforcement officials and Seminole County Fire Department deputies.
Yang was not in the apartment when it was found.
Only when the suspect’s manager at Marco Polo Pools called the police and reported that Yang had confessed to killing his wife because she had destroyed his passport and was unable to go to work did the police learn about the crime.
During his arrest, he confessed to his wife’s horrific murder a second time, giving specifics of the knife he used, how she crawled down the hallway, and how he dragged her into the bathtub.
Yang admits in a complaint related to the crime that he held his wife’s hand and played her favorite music while she was submerged in the bathwater for at least 10 minutes, until she passed away.
Video from Yang’s arrest last week shows one officer driving into the gated apartment complex, where he later joins up with a number of other cops who are already pointing their Glock weapons at Yang, who is seen sitting inside what seems to be a parked red Subaru.
Police officers opened the driver’s car door and told Yang to exit the vehicle.
Yang was then handcuffed right away. Before being taken into prison without incident, he was felt down and assisted in removing what seemed to be a dog tag.
A subsequent accusation of first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with physical evidence was brought against him.
Yang began to wipe up the puddles of blood that were splattered all over the walls and floor when Pham passed away before leaving for his car.
According to Law & Crime, the woman suffered a “deep laceration to the left side of her neck” and her stomach had “pooled with blood.”
After Pham set fire to his passport, Yang said he lost control and could have “stopped short” but chose not to.
He claimed that was “not how he was raised” and that he always “goes all the way,” according to the complaint, Law & Crime reported.
The victim, Pham, was a native of Vietnam. To help Pham’s family with burial costs and to pay for her return to her country, a GoFundMe has been established.
According to the police, the woman had a “severe laceration to her neck’s left side.”
The amount raised as of Wednesday was close to $33, 380, considerably above their $10,000 target.
The person who called 911 and informed the dispatcher that Yang claimed he had just slain his wife, according to the complaint, was Yang’s employer, Michael Rathal, the news outlet charged.
The senior Rathel allegedly told the dispatcher that Yang called Rathel’s son, Michael Cole Rathel, and told him he had killed his wife by stabbing her and was attempting to clean up the evidence.