Garden City — Three Liberal men suspected of robbing a Garden City family and killing one victim were in custody Wednesday after the third suspect surrendered in Salina, police said.
At least two of the men were acquainted with the victims and had visited their home before Monday's pre-dawn robbery, according to police.
Giang Nguyen, 24, turned himself in Wednesday afternoon at the Saline County Jail, according to Garden City Police Capt. Mike Utz. Nguyen's brother, Nam Nguyen, 23, had surrendered about 24 hours earlier to police in Wichita.
The third suspect, Ngam Pham, 48, a parolee convicted of two Wichita homicides in 1982, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at a pool hall in Liberal, Utz said.
All three suspects worked at National Beef in Liberal, and at least two formerly worked close to Garden City at the IBP packing plant near Holcomb, according to police.
Utz said citizens began calling with tips hours after the crime, which began when three masked men confronted Thai Nguyen at gunpoint about 5 a.m. Monday as he was leaving for work at the IBP plant.
The robbers tied up Thai Nguyen, his parents, his brother and their two sisters. The brother, Thang Nguyen, 30, tried to escape and was shot twice, according to autopsy results from the Wichita Regional Forensic Center.
Police were called when the two sisters ran to a neighbor's house. At least one bracelet and one necklace were stolen in the robbery, Utz said.
Officers traced Pham to Liberal through several citizen calls and the cooperation of Liberal, Wichita and Winfield police and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Utz said.
Nam Nguyen was charged Wednesday with felony murder, six counts of kidnapping, seven counts of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, Utz said. He remained in Wichita on a $1 million bond.
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