A routine Thursday evening at Jo’s Nails & Spa in the Merchant Walk shopping center turned deadly on July 28, 2022. Around 6:30 p.m., a man identified as 52-year-old Patrick Wayne Cater entered or returned to the salon armed with a semiautomatic pistol and opened fire. Two people inside, 40-year-old Phi Anh Le and 45-year-old Khuyen Van Le, were fatally shot and pronounced dead at the scene.

Police officers who arrived encountered the shooter still armed and shot him; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Reporting describes Cater as having worked at the salon and being a co-lease owner with Khuyen Van Le, a business connection investigators noted but did not publicly link to a detailed motive.

Phi Anh Le was born in Vietnam on March 3, 1982, and was identified in an obituary as the daughter of Rat Nguyen and Chi Nguyen and the mother of Alexa Le and Alex Le. Does anyone who knew Phi or the business have details about the events that evening or the relationships involved?