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Anthony Paul Johnson Jr., 32, formerly of Westminster; Giang Thuy Nguyen, 33, formerly of Fountain Valley; Truc Ngoc Tran, 31, of Santa Ana; and Tam Hung Nguyen, 33, formerly of Riverside, are accused of murdering fellow gang member Viet Nguyen, 18, after he abandoned the four men Feb. 24, 1995, during a home-invasion robbery in Huntington Beach. Three members of a Vietnamese street gang will be arraigned Friday morning in Santa Ana for an execution-style retaliation murder of a gang associate more than a decade old, authorities said. Arraignment for a fourth member was pending his return to California. All four face one count of murder and one felony count of conspiracy to commit murder. Each man also was charged with special-circumstance allegations for murder by lying in wait and murder to avoid arrest, and sentencing enhancements for committing a crime for the benefit of a criminal street gang.Giang Nguyen also faces a burglary charge from a previous incident, according to a press ...

Martin Herrera, of Fountain Valley, was critically injured when shots rang out shortly after 4 p.m. Friday in the 600 block of N. Bristol Street. Herrera died the next day as a result of his injuries at UCI Medical Center in Orange, said Santa Ana police Cmdr. Tammy Franks.David Frias, 18, of Fountain Valley remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition, Franks said. Gang detectives arrested Hector Martinez, 23, on Sunday in Corona where he lives. Martinez was booked on suspicion of murder and a gang enhancement and is being held at the Orange County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail. Detectives are not releasing details of what led to the shooting pending the ongoing investigation.Herrera's killing is the third gang-related killing of the year in the city. Last year, there were 13 gang-related killings.