Irvine shooting victims shared a love of basketball

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Four days before her death, Monica Quan had news for her team. Quan, an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, held up her hand to show off an engagement ring. The players screamed and huddled around her for a closer look, head coach Marcia Foster recalled.

Quan was as happy as her basketball players, and later said she wished she had recorded the moment. She loved to have pictures taken with her friends. She wanted a big wedding, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, a public safety officer at USC, was trying to work extra hours to make it possible.

The couple was talking about who would be in the wedding party. They had yet to pick a date and a location when they were found Feb. 3, shortly after the Super Bowl, shot to death in their car in the parking structure of their Irvine condominium complex.

They had multiple gunshot wounds. There were no signs of a robbery, and investigators ruled out a murder-suicide.

The next day, Quan's father got a call from a close friend of the family. Randal Quan, a former captain with the Los Angeles Police Department, and Wayne Caffey, a detective with the Southeast Division, had known one another for almost 25 years. Caffey recalled their conversation.

"We lost her," Quan said. "She's gone."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quan-lawrence-20130211,0,2017805.story

[JI7]

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[rdharma]

2. So Quan was murdered because she loved basketball?

Is that your point?

[dkf]

3. No, she was murdered because her father represented Christopher Dornan.

Which makes as much sense as being murdered because she loved basketball.

[rdharma]

4. That's what I thought.

I was just confused by your original posting about her love of basketball with no further explanation.

[dkf]

5. Oh that's the original title of the article.

It's sad that there is not more of a focus on her.

[rdharma]

6. It's sad that there is not more of a focus on her.

It's also sad that she was murdered for the perceived wrongdoings of her father.