FOXNews.com: Suspect charged with 5 counts of murder in San Francisco killings

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Suspect charged with 5 counts of murder in San Francisco killings Mar 28th 2012, 19:46 SAN FRANCISCO –  Prosecutors on Wednesday filed murder charges, with allegations of robbery and burglary, against a man accused of killing five people inside a San Francisco home. Binh Thai Luc, 35, was charged with five counts of murder with special circumstances of committing multiple murders, robbery and burglary, according to court documents. Luc faces an additional special circumstance of lying in wait in the death of 32-year-old Yuan Ji "Vincent" Lei, the documents show. Those enhancements make Luc eligible for the death penalty if convicted, though prosecutors have not yet said whether they plan to pursue that sentence. The Vietnam native was arrested Sunday after five bodies were found Friday at a crime scene so gruesome and complex that authorities took days to identify the victims and a suspect. Police initially thought they were dealing with a murder-suicide. The victims were Lei; his parents Hua Shun Lei, 65, and Wan Yi Xi, 62; his sister Ying Xue Lei, 37; and his girlfriend Chia Huei Chu, 30. Prosecutors said in the court documents that a blunt instrument was used in the killings but gave no other details. They did not immediately respond to requests for comment after the charges were filed. Investigators have not discussed a possible motive and have released few details about the circumstances surrounding the deaths, only saying that they believe the occupants of the house in the city's Ingleside District were targeted. The court documents filed Wednesday also listed special allegations against Luc for previously being convicted of felonies. State records indicate that he was arrested in a 1996 armed robbery of a Chinese restaurant in San Jose and convicted the following year of multiple counts of second-degree robbery and assault with a firearm. He was in prison from 1998 to 2006, then served two years on parole. After he served his sentence, an immigration judge ordered Luc deported to his native Vietnam, but that never happened because the Vietnamese government didn't provide the documents needed to remove him, federal officials said.

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