{"id":849049,"date":"2026-08-09T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849049\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:24:14","slug":"sunshine-nephew-of-shopkeeper-killed-in-attack-slams-youth-crime-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849049\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine: Nephew of shopkeeper killed in attack slams youth crime laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nephew of a good Samaritan who died after taking on a group of youths has slammed Victoria\u2019s youth crime<\/a> laws as weak.<\/p>\n

Hung Truong joined hundreds of community members who rallied on Sunday demanding change after the death of 60-year-old Van Viet Truong.<\/p>\n

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More than 100 people are expected to gather in honour of Van Viet Truong.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

The grocery shop owner died after confronting a group of teens accused of stealing from a clothes shop in the suburb of Sunshine a week ago.<\/p>\n

Two 14-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy have been charged with assault-related offences. All three were granted bail.<\/p>\n

\"Members<\/p>\n

Members of the Sunshine Vietnamese community at a memorial for local businessman and Melbourne man Truong Van Viet.\u00a0Chris Hopkins<\/p>\n

A 13-year-old boy who was initially arrested has since had his charges withdrawn.<\/p>\n

A 15-year-old boy remains before the courts after his charge was upgraded to manslaughter.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nephew Hung Truong said he was \u201csick and tired of this government<\/a>\u201d, which he described as \u201cweak\u201d, calling for the new \u201cadult time for adult crime\u201d laws to be properly enforced.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow my aunty has no husband. My cousins have no father. Manslaughter, what the hell,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Hung<\/p>\n

Hung Truong joined hundreds of locals in Melbourne who rallied demanding change after a good samaritan\u2019s death.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

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The 60-year-old died after confronting alleged shoplifters.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

He said his uncle was \u201cvery, very friendly and will be missed dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Opposition Leader Jess Wilson said the \u201cnumber one job\u201d of any government was to keep its community safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has not happened in the last decade under this Labor government,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A vigil was held for Truong.<\/p>\n

\"Thousands<\/p>\n

Thousands of angry residents attended a rally demanding stronger laws and justice, after a Sunshine man Truong Van Viet was killed in Melbourne.\u00a0Chris Hopkins<\/p>\n

Phong Nguyen from the Australian Vietnamese Council said people wanted to \u201cpay respect to a man who sacrificed his life for his fellow human beings\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike all heroes, we don\u2019t know them until their act of heroism and that\u2019s the sad thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While locals in Melbourne\u2019s west have welcomed the bolstered police presence many say it\u2019s a knee-jerk reaction and fear it\u2019ll only be a matter of time before something like this happens again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nephew of a good Samaritan who died after taking on a group of youths has slammed Victoria\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-849049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}