Hoang Xuan Le was convicted Friday of murdering James Dao in 2019. Le and one other were charged with taking Dao out on a boat, shooting him, then dumping him in the ocean with his ankles weighed down.
After days of deliberation, a jury on Friday convicted Hoang “Wayne” Xuan Le of first-degree murder for the death of a friend who drowned after being shot three times 3 miles off Dana Point Harbor in 2019.
A 40-year-old accused drug trafficker extensively planned to take his friend who owed him $30,000 to $40,000 out on a lobster fishing boat off Dana Point Harbor to kill him and then collect on his life insurance policy.
A 40-year-old accused drug trafficker extensively planned to take his friend who owed him $30,000 to $40,000 out on a lobster fishing boat off Dana Point Harbor to kill him and then collect on his life insurance policy.
Hoang “Wayne” Xuan Le, accused of shooting Tri “James” Minh Dao in October 2019, says his friend fell into the sea on an excursion off Dana Point Harbor during a fight. Witnesses say Le talked about killing Dao afterward.