‘My dad tried to kill me,’ dying California girl tells first responders, prosecutor says

“My dad tried to kill me,” a dying 11-year-old girl told police and paramedics after getting stabbed while trying to protect her mother, a prosecutor told jurors on Thursday, at the beginning of the murder trial for the girl’s stepfather.

Tanh Thien Tran in a 2018 mugshot. (Photo Courtesy of the Garden Grove Police Department) 

Tanh Thien Tran, 81, is charged with killing his stepdaughter, Anh Yen Nguyen Duong, and attempting to kill his wife, the girl’s mother, San Nguyen, during a bloody attack on Aug.