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| Police arrest business associate in slaying of herbal doctor |
Pierre Haobsh, 27, of Oceanside was taken into aegis at gunpoint at a gas base in San Diego County, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bob Brown said. Board with an arrest accreditation had been afterward a red Lexus that belonged to him, Brown said. A loaded blaster and acreage acceptance to one of the victims was begin central the car, the sheriff said.
Deputies who went to analysis on the abundance of 57-year-old Dr. Weidong "Henry" Han on Wednesday begin the bodies of the physician, his 29-year-old wife, Huijie "Jenni" Yu, and the couple's 5-year-old daughter, Emily Han, in the family's multimillion-dollar home on the outskirts of Santa Barbara.
Their bodies were begin shot, captivated in artificial and duct-taped in the garage, a sheriff's account said. They had endure been apparent the night afore they were found.
Brown said board were still aggravating to actuate why the ancestors was killed, but they accept Haobsh was afresh circuitous in a business accord with Han and banking accretion could accept been involved.
"This analysis is far from over," Brown said. "It is circuitous and ongoing."
Two business assembly of Han went to his home afterwards he bootless to appearance up for a affair — something they told authorities was awful accidental of him. The assembly alleged authorities if they begin the foreground aperture accessible and the family's cars anchored outside.
Authorities didn't say what led them from the deluxe two-story home that sits on 7 acreage amidst by avocado copse to the Oceanside area, area Haobsh was arrested, added than 170 afar to the south.
Haobsh is a U.S. citizen, authorities said, but few added data about him were released. No relatives, accompany or an advocate who could animadversion were begin in an antecedent seek by The Associated Press.
The killings abashed Santa Barbara, area Han, who endemic and operated the Santa Barbara Herb Clinic, was a accepted figure.
The couple's babe was a kindergartener at Foothill Elementary School in the Goleta Unified School District, area attorneys were fabricated accessible to her classmates and their parents. "It is absurd to accurate the amazing affliction that this bearings presents to us," Superintendent William Banning said in a statement.
Han had endemic and operated the Santa Barbara Herb Dispensary back 1991, according to the clinic's website. Public annal appearance he is a accountant acupuncturist.
A adventures on his website says he becoming degrees in Oriental and Western anesthetic from a Beijing university in 1982, admission at the top of his class. He confused to the U.S. a few years after to abstraction psychology.
Han came from a ancestors of Chinese doctors and provided acceptable treatments including acupuncture, acupressure and herbal formulas from an on-site Chinese pharmacy.
He is co-author of the book "Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine," and he was alive on a aggregate about how to accommodate Chinese and Western medicine. At the clinic, he created abundant herbal formulas for anniversary accommodating that were abounding at an on-site pharmacy.
"Not alone is he traveling to be absent by me alone and professionally, but this association is traveling to absence him incredibly. He was the man," said Dr. Glenn Miller, a analyst who co-authored "Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine" with Han and advised him one of his abutting friends.
"Patients we allotment would allocution about how in the accurate faculty of the chat he was a healer, in that he would accept to the accompaniment of his patients," said Miller, who afraid up several times as he batten to the AP. He said Han capital his patients healed both physically and emotionally.
A black recording on the clinic's voicemail said the ability was bankrupt Friday, but humans would be there to accost those who capital to accurate their condolences.
"Our doors will be accessible for you to honor, pay respects and bless the lives of Dr. Henry Han, his wife, Jenni, and babe Emily. They absolutely were special," the recording said.
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