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Inset: Duy Nguyen (Boulder County Sheriff). Background: Green Meadows apartment complex in Longmont, Colorado, where Nguyen shot her boyfriend (Google Maps).
Last week, 26-year-old Duy Nguyen received a 40-year prison sentence after a jury found her guilty of first-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault in December. This information was confirmed by the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office.
Police in Longmont, a city approximately 15 miles northeast of Boulder, responded to an incident at the Green Meadows apartment complex just before 9 p.m. on February 5, 2025. A 27-year-old man had called to report being shot multiple times. Prosecutors revealed that the victim was ambushed with at least six shots at close range as he exited his car after returning home from a bar.
The victim sustained injuries to his face, shoulder, arm, and thigh but managed to survive. Initially uncertain of his assailant’s identity, he suspected his ex-girlfriend Nguyen, with whom he had ended a relationship months prior to the shooting.
He suffered gunshot wounds to the face, shoulder, arm and thigh — but he survived. The victim was unsure of who shot him but thought it could be his ex-girlfriend, Nguyen. The two had dated but had broken up months before the shooting.
Investigators identified the suspect’s car using license plate reader images and shell casings recovered at the scene. While executing a search warrant at her home, cops recovered the gun used in the shooting as well as electronic devices which revealed she had been “planning the shooting for weeks.”
“The reason we were here on an attempted murder sentencing instead of a first-degree murder sentencing is only because, by sheer luck, the victim survived the defendant shooting him six times, including once in the face, at point blank range,” Boulder County Deputy District Attorney Brad Sherman said in a statement issued to the Daily Camera. “The court’s sentence of 40 years accurately reflects the defendant’s culpability in this case and hopefully brings a measure of justice and closure to the victim.”