Wife Killed in Frogtown Worked in Plymouth: Pioneer Press

St. Paul police suspect that the husband of Panhia Yang, 27, killed her and her brother before killing himself Sunday.

Panhia Yang died at her home in St. Paul, but her employment was in Plymouth, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press:

Panhia Yang was also creative and artistic, her family said. She designed and sewed her own clothes, and liked drawing and singing. She worked at Teleflex Medical OEM in Plymouth, assembling medical devices.

"She was a great mother to her kids and was very protective of them," Mai Kia Yang said. "She was always smiling, very caring. I think she cared more about others than herself."

Read the full article at twincities.com.

Teleflex Medical OEM employs more than 200 people at its Plymouth facility, according to a company news release that said U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen attended a ribbon-cuting for renovations done in 2011.

Another recent crime story in which Plymouth played a small role is the Star Tribune's Young and Armed series, in which a gun later used to commit crimes passes into—then out of—a Plymouth man's hands. 

[Thomas Allen] Hoffman, a phlebotomy technician who lived in Plymouth, fired his Hi-Point a few times at the range. Then he gave it to a friend, an Army veteran named Lee McLearen, for cleaning. On June 29, 2008, McLearen tucked it away in a closet under some blankets before he had a party in his Coon Rapids apartment. He said two of the guests were “chicks from a bar” that he knew only as Binny and Lisa.

After the women left, McLearen realized his debit card was missing. So was Hoffman’s Hi-Point. McLearen reported the theft to the police, but there was no way to track the gun.