CCSF to confer honorary diploma to slain Alameda County sheriff’s recruit
Household and mates of slain Alameda County sheriff’s recruit David Nguyen gathered at Metropolis Faculty of San Francisco for a candlelight vigil in his honor.
SAN FRANCISCO – Household and mates of slain Alameda County sheriff’s recruit David Nguyen gathered at Metropolis Faculty of San Francisco for a candlelight vigil in his honor.
Nguyen was killed in a freeway taking pictures in Oakland final month whereas driving residence from the sheriff’s academy in Dublin. The shooter remains to be at massive.
Nguyen’s mom was amongst those that gathered to have fun his life in tune and with remembrances at a campus that helped form his future.
“He was solely inside one unit of finishing his liberal arts affiliate diploma at Metropolis Faculty,” stated Nationwide Guard Lt. Alan Wong, a CCSF trustee.
Wong served with Nguyen within the Nationwide Guard, stated he put ahead a proposal for the faculty to award Nguyen an honorary diploma.
“His meritorious service to the group represents the perfect of Metropolis Faculty and represents what we’re all about, and that is why it is so vital for us to honor his service,” Wong stated.
“David had a lot potential to take action a lot,” stated his girlfriend Shanice Vaughn, who additionally serves with the Nationwide Guard. The 2 met as fellow troopers.
“The diploma meant quite a bit to David, and he was so near ending it. All of his desires have been going to be completed,” Vaughn stated.
“His life had which means,” stated Nguyen’s buddy Aaron Lam. “His life mattered. And since the merciless world was too polluted with darkness, he was known as again into the arms of the Lord.”
San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto stated, “He represented the way forward for regulation enforcement, of public security. He represented integrity, by bettering himself and furthering his schooling right here.”
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Barbara Nguyen stated metropolis faculty meant a lot to her brother.
“He is a very good illustration of the scholars that come right here. Low earnings, immigrant household, little to no steerage rising up. However this faculty gave him that,” she stated.
Nguyen was named an honorary sheriff’s deputy a number of weeks in the past at his fellow recruits’ commencement. This honorary diploma could be one other salute for a life minimize brief.
