Family murder

wind2000 · Sep 6, 2007

Restaurateur Peter Hyun Joon Lee fatally stabbed his estranged wife, their six-year-old son and two grandparents before using the double-edged knife to kill himself, a B.C. regional coroner said Thursday.

Bodies are taken out of the house in the Victoria suburb of Oak Bay on Wednesday Sept. 5, 2007. (CP / Adrian Lam)

Lee and his family were found dead early Tuesday in an upscale Oak Bay home after police received a 911 call from the house.

Regional coroner Rose Stanton said a 10-centimetre-long double-edged blade was seized from the home.

"I will say that all of the victims had multiple stab wounds," she told reporters, adding that "some of the victims had defensive wounds."

Police said a frantic woman called 911 for help at 3:06 a.m. Tuesday night, when the murders took place -- apparently within minutes of each another, according to a coroner.

Stanton said that 38-year-old Lee was the last to die, officially calling it a murder-suicide.

Earlier in the day, police officially confirmed the identities of the five family members. In a press release posted on the Saanich Police website, the five deceased individuals are named as:

Peter Hyun Joon Lee, age 38
Christian Thomas Jin Young Lee, age six
Yong Sun Park, age 32
Kum Lea Chun, age 59
Moon Kyu Park, age 66
Lee and Park were in the midst of a bitter divorce. Stanton said the two older victims were Park's parents.

Ongoing investigation

The bodies were finally removed on Wednesday evening after dozens of investigators spent a second full day at the house.

Lee was facing several criminal charges and was scheduled to appear in court next week.

A search of court documents showed that Lee had been out on bail for a July 31 incident in which police say he tried to hurt his wife by driving their SUV into a telephone pole.

Police had recommended he stay in jail until his court hearing, and now B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal is asking questions about the decision to free him.

"It may well have been the case where the Crown may have gone in there and agreed to the release without all the facts being known," he told CTV British Columbia. "But those things are still being investigated. I don't want to speculate as to what took place."

Criminal lawyer Michael Butterfield said no one could have predicted Lee's actions.

"I'm sure that the judge and prosecutor are heartsick, but they acted within the law and they acted appropriately," he said.

Butterfield added that "it's impossible to tell when people are going to do these sorts of things. If every person who the police said should remain behind bars was kept in custody, our jails would be 10 times the size they are."

Lee's record includes criminal charges for aggravated assault, dangerous driving causing injury, and forcible confinement dating back to 2005.

Divorce proceedings had been launched in August between Lee and his wife, court records show.

And CP cited small claims court documents filed in December of last year, that showed Lee was being sued by Eunju Song, a former employee who alleged he assaulted her twice.

Song, an employee of Lee's The Guru of Korea Bar and Grill, filed documents seeking more than $25,000 in damages stemming from claims Lee slashed her right hand in the kitchen of the restaurant in December 2004.

Song also claimed Lee assaulted her in March 2005, grabbing her by the throat, slamming her head against a stone wall, hitting her face and choking her.

With files from The Canadian Press, CTV's Todd Battis and CTV British Columbia
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This is simply too messed up for words to describe it.

[N] · Sep 6, 2007

this was kinda predictable according to the incidents that happened before, reminds me of the chris benoit incident (that fucked my mind up pretty bad)... wonder if he was on drugs or something, but damn if you want to suicide then go ahead, don't kill your family especially your children...

zoom_zoom · Sep 6, 2007

as I have heard someone say before, do everyone a favor and commit the suicide first before continuing on with the murders...

fearless_fx · Sep 6, 2007

most selfish motherfucker in the world...

suijei · Sep 6, 2007

i wonder what kind of mindset you need to do something like that

brown_bear · Sep 7, 2007

-ohmy thats so selfish

MissCheekS · Sep 7, 2007

yeah....selfish...but havent u guys noticed....this kinda stuff happens more and more often....
damn...thats bad

xmichelly · Sep 7, 2007

how come these kind of things happen so much these days? >.<

snowpear · Sep 7, 2007

That is just messed up and, sick. At least, let his family continue to live ( i mean, they didn't deserve it right?). Or he could at least, went to the doctor or something.

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