Saturday, November 13, 2010

Philadelphia, PA: Phila. man charged with killing nail-salon owner

By Robert Moran
Inquirer Staff Writer
A 31-year-old Philadelphia man was charged Friday night with murder in the strangulation death of a Bucks County mother and nail salon owner on Monday, the district attorney said.

Tony Vo was a boyfriend and business associate of Annie Huynh, 30, who was found dead in a bathroom at her salon, Kim's Nails, at the Pike Plaza Shopping Center in Upper Southampton, said David W. Heckler, the Bucks County district attorney.

Heckler said Vo had been arguing with Huynh in the days before her murder, and a cell-phone call put him at her salon the morning she was killed.

Vo had been under surveillance in Philadelphia this week when he took a bottle of over-the-counter medication and was admitted to Albert Einstein Medical Center for psychiatric evaluation, Heckler said.

When Vo was released, police took him to Upper Southampton, where he was questioned for several hours on Friday, Heckler said.

At one point, he appeared to fall unconscious and was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center in Langhorne, where doctors determined he was faking it, and he was returned to police custody, Heckler said.

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