BARLING, Ark. – More than 400 people attended a Saturday service for four of the five victims of a shooting rampage last weekend at a Texas roller rink.
Trini Do, 29, her sisters, Lynn Ta, 16, and Michelle Ta, 28, and her brother, Hien Ta, 21, were killed when her estranged husband opened fire during a birthday party for the couple's 11-year-old son. Tan Do, 35, later killed himself.
Police in Grand Prairie, Texas, have said they believe the shooting was planned and it followed years of domestic violence. Trini Do received a protective order in December against her husband, but she had it withdrawn earlier this year against a prosecutor's advice because she wanted to give him another chance, an aunt has said.
The siblings' deaths have shaken the Vietnamese community in western Arkansas, where Trini Do's family arrived from Vietnam in 1994.
The Rev. Peter Quang Le of the Sacred Heart of Mary Church told those gathered at the funeral that the deaths are impossible to understand, but he asked them to forgive what happened.
The fifth victim in the shooting rampage, Thuy Nguyen, 25, was Trini Do's sister-in-law. She will be buried in Vietnam.
Four others were wounded in the rampage, but police said their injuries were not life-threatening. About 30 friends and family attended the private party at the rented roller rink.
Trini and Tran Do's son and his 3-year-old sister were not injured in the shootings and are in the care of other relatives, police have said.
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