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A Texas elementary school teacher found dead in her backyard with multiple gunshot wounds is said to have met her suspected killer on a dating app just a week before she was murdered.
Police responded to reports of a shooting at 9:50 pm on January 7 in the 1100 block of Oxford Mills Lane in Sugar Land Texas when 28-year-old Wendy Duan was found dead in her backyard.
The man she had been dating, 26-year-old Charvas Thompson, was arrested in connection with the slaying Wednesday in Louisiana, more than 260 miles from the deadly shooting.
The two met on the dating app ‘MeetMe’ according to Duan’s mother, who did not want to be named. She told KHOU11 that she had not been comfortable with the arrangement.
Texas elementary school teacher Wendy Duan, 28, was found dead in her backyard with multiple gunshot wounds and is said to have met her suspected killer, Charvas Thompson, 26, on a dating app alone. a week before she was assassinated.
Thompson was arrested in connection with the slaying, which took place in the 1100 block of Oxford Mills Lane in Sugar Land Texas on Wednesday in Louisiana, more than 260 miles from the deadly shooting.
She showed me the photo. I don’t know her name. She said, ‘do you like it?’ I said ‘no,’ Duan’s distraught mother recalled.
Despite her strong intuition and warning Duan about the danger of meeting a stranger online, she never imagined her daughter would end up dead.
‘Is incredible. The guy is very bad. He took her life. I hope this guy gets the full legal punishment,” he said.
Duan was a third grade language arts teacher in the Alief Independent School District and was named English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher of the Year in December 2021.
According to her mother, Duan was a dedicated teacher who put her students first.
“Every Thursday he asks me to go to the dollar store to buy gifts for the kids,” she said.
Duan was a third grade language arts teacher in the Alief Independent School District and was named English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher of the Year in December 2021
Thompson is in the process of being extradited to Texas. An arrest warrant was issued Sunday charging him with murder and setting his bail at $500,000.
In December 2021, Duan was named the English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher of the Year, according to a post on her Facebook page.
‘I still can’t believe I won the ESL Teacher of the Year award. The whole time I kept telling people there was no way I was going to win,” he wrote.
‘Especially going up against other teachers who have been teaching much longer than I have. Thanks to the people who believed in me and voted for me!’
In a video on her Facebook, the 28-year-old teacher can be seen marking papers for school.
In the video, Duan can be seen waving his phone toward a stack of paper he left to mark over the weekend.
“My ass has been procrastinating because I’m not one of those teachers who grades all week, so I wait until the last minute and they’re due tomorrow,” she is heard saying.
On her Instagram profile, the young educator wrote that she is a former student of the University of Houston and of Chinese-Vietnamese descent.
Tributes flowed to the Texas teacher after news of her death spread to family and friends. One person said that Duan loved helping her community by posting photos of her doing charity work.
The person Duan volunteered with wrote: “Sad to learn one of our volunteers, Wendy Duan, 29, was killed.”
The bio on her profile reads an ominous tribute to her feelings on life: ‘Live life to the fullest. We’re just getting old.
The profile has multiple photos of the 28-year-old showing off her daily activities and hanging out with friends, as well as photos of her car.
Some posts indicate that Duan was never short of dating offers, with followers questioning her relationship status and some even asking her out.
In a video post on TikTok, Duan wrote: “When you realize your Tinder guy can sing while doing drunk karaoke,” indicating that the 28-year-old had previously used other dating apps, prior to ” MeetMe”.
Tributes flowed to the Texas teacher after news of her death spread to family and friends.
“The little moments I spent with her were a force of light. You can only say it. I remember going to her house and seeing all the cards on her fridge from her students and faculty from her school,” one person posted on Facebook.
“She was and still is loved by so many people and my heart breaks that she lost her life. Nobody deserves that.
On her Instagram profile, the young educator wrote that she is a former student of the University of Houston and of Chinese-Vietnamese descent.
The bio on her profile reads an ominous tribute to her feelings on life: ‘Live life to the fullest. We’re just getting old’
Some posts indicate that Duan was never short of dating offers, with followers questioning her relationship status and some even asking her out.
“When I met her, we laughed and sang a Drake song and kept repeating ’21 can you do anything for me’ all night.” We ran outside in the freezing cold, laughing and singing.
“She was a kind soul, from what I knew of her and my heart breaks that none of her friends and family will ever be able to experience that again.”
Another person Duan volunteered with said: “It’s sad to learn that one of our volunteers, Wendy Duan, 29, was killed.”
‘She wanted to do some good work in the community, so she came to volunteer with us. She was a very kind and soft-spoken person.
“We all had a genuine good vibe about her. We had prayer with her… Boy, you never know what a person is going through. Our sincerest condolences to her family.
The Alief Independent School District wrote in a statement: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the tragic passing of Alief ISD employee Wendy Duan.”
‘She was a third grade reading and writing teacher at Boone Elementary School. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family during this difficult time.
“She is a 2017 graduate of the University of Houston and was on the Dean’s List in the College of Education from Fall 2015-2017 and is the HAABE (Houston Area Association of Bilingual Educators) 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year “.