WORCESTER Ann Marie Gonzalez has a lot of unanswered questions about her son’s death and also his life.
Less than a year before her 31-year-old son, Phet Gouvonvong Jr. died in a police standoff in Worcester, he’d shown up at her door for the first time in nearly four years.
“I don’t know what happened within that 3½- to 4-year gap,” she said in a phone conversation Thursday from her home in Southbridge, recalling how she’d reported him missing years before.
“Everybody was looking for him,” she said, but he didn’t call, and he didn’t write. One day, about eight months ago, she said, he just showed up at her door with his sister.
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Phet Gouvonvong, 31, of Worcester, was identified as the victim.
The officer who shot Gouvonvong has not been identified.
“Our policy when there is an officer-involved shooting is to put the officer on administrative leave, which is where the officer is now,” said police Lt. Sean Murtha. “It’s always a stressful thing for the officers involved. We have spoken to him. He appears to be doing OK right now.”
The confrontation began about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after a man called police and said he was carrying a rifle and a bomb. He was threatening to detonate the device, District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. told reporters. The man was wearing body armor, Early said.
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