A Pennsylvania mother sentenced to life in prison for brutally murdering her two young sons also tried to shoot her 19-year-old cousin, but the gun miraculously jammed and he was able to disarm her, according to harrowing security footage shown by prosecutors this week. .
Trinh Nguyen, 40, was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life sentences for killing her children in May 2022 and received an additional 10 to 20 years for the attempted murder of her ex-husband’s nephew, who was also a neighbor.
Moments after shooting Nelson Tini, 9, and Jeffrey Tini, 13, in their beds as they slept, the deranged mother pointed a gun at Gianni Melchiondo outside their home in the upscale Upper Makefield Township in eastern Pennsylvania.
Nguyen tried to shoot but the gun never fired, giving Melchiondo the opportunity to disarm it, prosecutors said.
A video from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office shared on the Bucks County Courier Times website shows Nguyen handing a box to Melchiondo (apparently photos for her to give to her ex-husband) before taking out the weapon.
He drops the box, grabs it, and tries to wrestle the gun away from her.
Surveillance video shows Trinh Nguyen pointing a gun at her ex-husband’s nephew. Bucks County District Attorney’s Office The gun misfired and the teen was able to disarm it. Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
They disappear from view when Melchiondo is heard shouting, “Trinh! Drop it!”
They reappear, with Melchindo holding the gun, as he pushes it to the ground.
Surprised, he realizes that the gun is loaded.
“I could have died,” he said.
Trinh Nguyen pleaded guilty Wednesday to shooting her two children while they slept in their Pennsylvania home in May 2022. MICHELE C. HADDON / BUCKS COUNTY COURIER TIMES / USA TODAY NETWORK
The argument continues as Nguyen screams and tries to get the gun back.
He finally flees in a white minivan.
“I thank the Lord all the time the gun misfired,” Melchiondo’s mother, who was also the children’s aunt, testified in court, according to a news release from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
Photos shown at Trinh Nguyen’s sentencing hearing showed her two sons, Jeffrey, 13, and Nelson, 9, smiling together before they were brutally murdered. Trinh Nguyen/Facebook
At the hearing, First Assistant District Attorney Jen Schorn called the feat “nothing short of remarkable” and said Melchiondo’s bravery likely prevented Nguyen from going on a murderous rampage.
Nguyen had planned the murders for more than a week, The Post reported, and left a will blaming others for the problems in his life, including the impending eviction from his home.
She had been months behind on her rent, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Prosecutors say Trinh Nguyen planned the murder of her two children in part to get revenge on her ex-husband, Ed Tini. Trinh Nguyen/Facebook
A year earlier, she reportedly filed for divorce from Ed Tini, the father of her youngest son. Schorn said in an interview that prosecutors believe her attack was in part to “make her ex-husband pay.”
The children, who were shot in the head, died of their wounds in the hospital four days later.
The slideshow presented at the hearing showed photos of the brothers, who were remembered as loving and fun-loving, smiling side by side and playing baseball, one of the many sports they enjoyed.
Trinh Nguyen was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life sentences for killing her two children, plus additional time for attempted murder. Bucks County Prosecutor
After pointing the gun at Tini’s nephew, Nguyen fled in a minivan to New Jersey to buy heroin, which he attempted to ingest in a failed suicide attempt.
Detectives later found ammunition and drugs in the vehicle.
The negotiated plea and sentence “will ensure that the defendant will die within the four walls of a correctional facility,” Schorn said Wednesday.
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