Federal prosecutors in Virginia say the Tigers were behind two slayings: an unsolved killing at one of the gang’s house parties, and the 2019 murder of Brandon White.
Joseph Lamborn, of California; Peter Le, of Dunn Loring, Va.; and Young Yoo, of Centreville, Va. — all of whom are in their mid- to late 20s — faced mandatory sentences of life in prison after“You took his life because he had the nerve to testify against a fellow gang member who beat him up, put him in the hospital,” U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady told Lamborn, Le and Yoo as he imposed their sentences Monday. “Shame on all of you. How senseless.
After the beating, prosecutors wrote in a sentencing brief, an attorney representing Nguyen and another gang member offered White up to $10,000 in exchange for not testifying against Nguyen. White said his hospital bill from the beating was $74,000 and refused the entreaties, according to court documents.White ultimately testified under subpoena in Fairfax County Circuit Court in November 2018, and identified Nguyen as the person who assaulted him in August of that year.