Two people who died in a murder-suicice on the UC Irvine campus were identified Wednesday as a mother and son.
The victim was 77-year-old Thao Thai Nguyen of Irvine, and the suspect was her son, 36-year-old Andrew Nguyen Doan of Irvine, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
UC Irvine police were called to 214 Pereira Drive, Social Science Plaza B, at 3:52 p.m. Tuesday after receiving emergency calls about two bodies on the ground outside a multi-story building, campus police said.
Investigators characterized it as a suspected murder-suicide. Sheriff’s officials said Doan threw his mother from the “landing of a multi-story building,” then jumped to his death from the same landing.
Doan was a former student of the university from September 2017 through June 2019, according to UCI spokesman Tom Vasich. Doan majored in biological sciences and did not graduate, Vasich said.