Huang Tran

"... regularly played pool with the Richmond group, often earning money from his skills at the game. Justice O'Bryan said Phan ap parently believed the leader of the Footscray faction, Huang Tuan Tran, was partly responsible for the death some years earlier of an associate of Phan's. The jydge said on the night of the killing, Phan had followed Tran, caiTying a semi-automatic Ml carbine rifle, and cornered him in a small, enclosed garden. "You shot Tran in the head in a very cold-blooded manner, and you showed him no mercy what ever," Justice O'Bryan said. Phan was found guilty of Tran's murder on December 15, and also of intentionally causing serious injury to another member of the Footscray faction, Quang Huy Nguyen, who was shot in the shoulder by Phan. Phan ..."