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Father, son found dead in Virginia home ruled homicide

Sheriff's said 61-year-old Duong Nguyen and 22-year-old America Nguyen were found dead in their home.
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Father, son found dead in Virginia home — BEALETON, Va. -- A father and son found murdered in their Fauquier County home were apparently targeted.

That is according to the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office.

"It angers me that somebody would do that to such an amazing person, " said Jason Ewell, a friend of America Nguyen.

The father and son were the only family members home last week.

The wife and mother had traveled to Vietnam with her daughter, according to law enforcement sources.

The women last communicated with the men on Wednesday, November 7, through social media.

The women became concerned when they could not reach the men over the next few days.

On Friday, the women requested a welfare check at the home . After sheriff's deputies arrived and entered the home, they found both victims deceased with gunshot wounds.

The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.

Late Monday afternoon, the mother and daughter arrived at their home with friends to meet with victims' assistance personnel. The group appeared extremely distraught.

Friends of America Nguyen say Mr. Nguyen and his son America were kind and gentle and they have no idea why anyone would want to kill them.

Jason Ewell says he struck up a friendship with America when they were both students at Osbourne High School in Manassas before America transferred to Stonewall Jackson High School also in Manassas.

"He just had this personality that was so vibrant and and bright," said Ewell, who is now in the Army stationed in Fort Lewis in Washington state. Despite their distance, he would check in now and then with Nguyen, and had even met his father.

"They were both such nice people. They're not dramatic people they don't do looking for trouble. They just stick to themselves and they want to succeed in life, that's it," said Ewell.

America Nguyen posted on his Facebook page that he was attending Northern Virginia Community College. He also posted on November 5 that he had just landed a job at Amazon in Sterling, Virginia.

No murder weapon has been found and there were no signs of forced entry, according to detectives. The home is newly built in small subdivision on large plots of land near U.S route 29. Two doors down, a new home is going up. Neighbors we talked to did not know the Nguyens.

But someone wanted the Mr. Nguyen and his son dead and detectives are trying to figure out who.

"This doesn't appear to be random," said Capt. James Hartman with the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office.

"Whoever did this, they just need to go. They've got to go to prison. They've got to get off the streets, because it's just, why?" asked Ewell.

Over the weekend, sheriff's and K-9 units canvassed the area for evidence and were looking for anyone who may have seen or heard anything.

. No suspects or motive was identified.

Anyone with knowledge about Duong Nguyen and/or America Nguyen is asked to the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office. Anyone with any information about this crime or anyone with home security video or dashcam video from the area is asked to contact officials at 540-347-3300 or Fauquier County Crime Solvers at 540-349-1000.

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