Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
The Las Vegas Police Department said the arrest came after the Las Vegas Criminal Apprehension Team developed information on the whereabouts of Whipple and passed on the information to the FBI’s Phoenix Violent Crime Task Force.
Whipple is currently in custody at the Estrella Jail in Maricopa County. It is unclear if she has retained a lawyer who can comment on her behalf.
Nhu “Annie” Ngoc Nguyen.GoFundMe
The arrest marks the end of an 11-day manhunt for Whipple who is accused of killing 53-year-old “Annie” Nhu Nguyen.
Nguyen wasrun overand killed Dec. 29 as she was trying to stop Whipple from leaving the parking lot of her business, Crystal Nails & Spa, about 40 blocks from the Las Vegas Strip.
According to police, Nguyen ran out to stop her and allegedly jumped in front of Whipple’s vehicle. Police say Whipple accelerated the Camaro in the parking lot and Nguyen was “thrown under.”
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer Larry Hadfield previously told PEOPLE that the person who rented the vehicle had nothing to do with the incident.
“It is totally unrelated,” he said. “How [Whipple] came to have the car is part of the investigation but she is no relation to the person who was on the rental agreement.”
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AGoFundMe pagefor Nguyen, which has raised over $37,000 so far, described her as a hard-working single mother of three girls who worked tirelessly to support her family.
“She had been constantly putting in 12-14 hours a day, seven days a week to send her daughters to college and to support her mother, siblings, and grandchildren,” according to the page. “Allowing them to have a greater opportunity in life, she worked endlessly to the point where she would skip eating until after hours so they would not have to work as hard as she did. She would never buy anything for herself. Any gifts that she received would be passed to her daughters, rather than keeping it for herself. She never asked for anything in return, besides more grandchildren. Every penny that she had accumulated always go towards her family.”
“This event should not have happened over a bill at a nail salon,” Hadfield said. “Over a bill in a nail salon, it is nothing to kill someone for.”
source: people.com
