Binh Thai Luc arrested in San Francisco murder case
Police are investigating the brutal homicide of five people in San Francisco. They have arrested a suspect they believe is responsible for all five murders.
LOS ANGELES — Binh Thai Luc, 35, was arrested by San Francisco police on Sunday in connection to the brutal murders of 5 people found in a home in the city's Ingleside neighborhood.
"This was a complex crime scene," San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr told reporters on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. "We didn't know what we had."
40 investigators have been working on the case, and described the crime scene in unusually gruesome terms, calling the murders "shocking in their brutality," the San Francisco Chronicle reported. They initially suspected a murder-suicide.
The deaths were discovered at 7:45 Friday morning, when a relative of some of the house's tenants walked in and found a body in the entryway, according to the Chronicle. She then discovered two more bodies in the garage before running out of the house and calling for help. Police later found two more bodies in the back of the home.
Two days after the discovery of the victims, they were still unidentified, and officers had not determined the exact cause of death, according to the Chronicle.
Police Chief Suhr said all five deaths involved blunt trauma and added that "an edged weapon" of some type was used. He also suggested there was a relationship between the suspect and victims, but declined to elaborate further, according to the Chronicle.
Binh Thai Luc is a San Francisco resident with a criminal record and is suspected to have prior ties to gangs, CNN reported. The police chief declined to say what led investigators to Luc, according to the AP.
He was arrested and booked on five counts of murder early Sunday, Suhr told reporters, who added Luc "did not surrender" and "was not arrested at home," according to CNN.
His brother, 32-year-old Brian Luc, was also arrested and charged with narcotics possession, a felon in possession of ammunition, and for a probation violation, according to police, CNN reported. The brothers live together in the city.
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