The officers heard Bích Câu acting distraught and pounding and screaming inside. Officer Chad Marshall and Officer Tom Mun arrived at the East Taylor Street duplex where she lived with her boyfriend and the couple's two sons. Two officers arrived on scene in separate patrol cars. Instead, she went outside and broke the window, then asked a neighbor for a boost into the bedroom after Bùi refused to help. Bích Câu then called 9-1-1 to help, but the operator advised her it was not an emergency situation and she should hire a locksmith. Because the bedroom door was locked, she assumed he was inside the bedroom ignoring her and grew angry after she tried unsuccessfully to pry open the door with a vegetable peeler. According to Bùi, that night someone called the house to let them know the boys were outside again unsupervised and Bích Câu called Bùi to help Bùi was outside and did not respond. While officers were en route, Bích Câu was heard by neighbors screaming in her home, prompting more calls to the police as a suspected domestic violence issue. Bùi related several incidents that occurred in 2001 requiring police responses to Bích Câu's actions. Bùi later testified that Bích Câu had exhibited symptoms of mental illness after their second child was born in 2000, but would often stop taking her anti-psychotic medication because it made her tired. A neighbor previously had reported the children running outside unattended, prompting a prior visit from a police officer more than a week before the shooting. īùi stated in an interview that the family had been living in the duplex for approximately three months because the weather was hot, the sons often ran outside to the front yard. The neighbor phoned the police to report the wandering toddler, which prompted a dispatch to the scene to check on the welfare of the toddler. According to a neighbor, Bích Câu was "marching zombielike down the sidewalk" and ignoring her youngest son, who was wandering in traffic at the intersection of Taylor and 12th Streets crying and asking for "his mommy." The neighbor told her to "go take care of your little babies," and Bích Câu's boyfriend Bùi took her into their family's home and drew the blinds. Shooting Īt 6:00 p.m., Bích Câu was heard and seen by neighbors yelling in Vietnamese and waving her arms while roaming around the streets of their neighborhood. Marshall, then 30 years old, had four years of law enforcement experience, while Mun had two and a half years of experience. The two officers, Chad Marshall and Tom Mun, were employed by the San Jose Police Department. Bích Câu had at least nine interactions with police from 2001 to 2003 due to mental health issues and outbursts, and had been hospitalized at least three times for mental health issues. She had a history of mental health problems and had stopped taking anti psychotic medication. She was 4 feet 9 inches (145 cm) tall and weighed 98 pounds (44 kg). She was the mother of two boys, then 2 and 4 years old, with whom she lived with in an apartment, along with her boyfriend Đăng Quang Bùi. She immigrated to the United States in 1997, taking a job at the NUMMI assembly plant in Fremont, California.
She was born Trần Thị Bích Câu in Vietnam on May 2, 1978, the first child of Trần Mạnh Kim and Nguyễn Thị Hoàng. Backgrounds īích Câu was a 25-year-old Vietnamese immigrant who spoke little English. Her family was awarded $1.8 million in a lawsuit filed against the city of San Jose. The incident led to protests from the Vietnamese American community in San Jose, accusing the officer of using excessive force. Bích Câu was wielding an Asian vegetable peeler at two police officers and was then shot once in the chest. She was fatally shot by a San Jose Police officer in her home. The shooting of Bich Cau Thi Tran (also known incorrectly as Cau Bich Tran ) occurred in San Jose, California, on July 13, 2003. Undated photograph of Trần, provided by family following her deathĮast Taylor Street, San Jose, California, U.S.īích Câu's family awarded $1.8 million from lawsuit filed against the city of San Jose
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