Experts talk about the latest treatments for breast cancer. HEALTH-PAGE C7 READY REFERENCE l»lr classified sectww jS^eattheReference Desk Your hometown newspaper October 1,2006 serving Westland for 42 years 75 cents WINNERS OF OVER 100 STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS SINCE 2001 www.hometownlife.com orders prison time in salon shooting BY DARRELL CLEM her job, and he had earlier STAFF WRITER threatened to kill her, said now-retired Westland police A gunman who opened fire Sgt. James Dexter. in a Westland nail salon where Nguyen went to Golden his wife worked will spend 1272 Nails, confronted Hoang, to 25 years in prison for trying pointed a handgun at his face to kill her boss. and pulled the trigger, but Andy Nguyen, convicted of police said it didn't initially trying to Mil his wife's boss for fire. refusing to fire her, learned his He again tried to get the gun fate Friday during his sentenc­ to fire as he and Hoang began ing by Wayne County Circuit struggling near the back of the PHOtOS H TOM HAWLEYI STAFF PHOTOGRAPHS Judge Bruce Morrow. salon, where Hoang had been Artists Andrea Irwin and Martine MacDonald show off one of four Andy Warhol style palntmgs Irwin has done as part of the Downriver Council Nguyen went to Golden eating lunch, Dexter said. for the Arts exhibit, "Resurrected Voices: The Eioise Cemetery Project." The two women are curators of a multi-media exhibit that honors the Nails salon, near Merriman Hoang was hit on the head more than 7,000 people buried in the cemetery. and Cherry Hill, and fired a with the gun, and Nguyen then .40-caliber handgun during a fired several shots into the ceil­ struggle with owner Dung ing and wall. Hoang on the afternoon of Feb. One bullet grazed Hoang's 28. head, Dexter has said. On Friday, Hoang commend­ Hoang managed to subdue ed the sentence imposed by Nguyen and seize the gun from Morrow. him as Nguyen's wife and oth­ "I am very happy about it," ers fled the salon, police have Hoang said, reached by tele­ said. phone at his salon. Ultimately, Nguyen fled the Nguyen's sentencing came salon through a back door, but after a Wayne County jury in police captured him as he ran BY SUE MASON Council for the Arts in Taylor. August convicted him of around to the front parking lot STAFF WRITER "It was like something out of the assault with intent to murder of the strip mall where Golden Twilight Zone; if the power hadn't and felony firearms. Nails is located. t's not easy to find the Eioise gone out, I wouldn't have gone there Aside from his sentence for A jury in August heard testi- Cemetery, nestled among some and I wouldn't have had a conversa­ trying to kill Hoang, Nguyen mony for part of two days. Ipine trees off Henry Ruff in tion with Martine," Irwin said. "I feel will spend an additional two Jurors returned a guilty verdict Westland's south end. some of those souls wanted their years in prison for the felony Aug. 30 — the same day they But somehow Andrea Irwin did story to be told " firearms conviction, according started their deliberations, when a day trip to visit antique The goal of the exhibition is "to to a clerk in Morrow's court­ police Sgt. Michael Harhold stores along Michigan Avenue was give some honor to these individuals room. has said. short-circuited by a power outage. who, when they were alive, were Nguyen's wife no longer Harhold, who handled the When she saw the cemetery, she marginalized," said MacDonald, the works at the salon, Hoang said case after Dexter retired, has immediately thought of her friend DCA gallery education coordinator. Friday. called the verdict "appropriate Martine MacDonald who, she knew, Titled "Resurrected Voices: The Nguyen, a Dearborn Heights and just." was doirig drawings of Mt. Carmel Eioise Cemetery Project," the exhibi­ resident, was upset that his Cemetery ill Wyandotte. tion will feature 40 pieces of original estranged wife wouldn't quit dclemihometowniife.com I (734) 953-2110 It led to a conversation about their artwork, while the opening ceremo­ collaborating on an art project relat­ ny Thursday, Oct. 1Q? will include A participating artist placed a flower near one ed to the cemetery and ended up as poetry readings and music, also of the graves in the Eioise Cemetery to paint a multi-media exhibit that opens for the show. later this month at the Downriver MASESEEELOISE, A5 School board voices Here's chance to win a fabulous shopping spree The Observer & Eccentric Newspapers Utica Park Blvd.); Four Season Observer & Eccentric Newspapers or BY SUE MASON ing has been lacking the last and area merchants are teaming up to Sunrooms. 5245 Jackson Road, Ann online at www.hometownlife.com. 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