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[h=4]2 teens who died in murder-suicide were friends[/h]Phuong Kieu and her sister May drove<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to Independence High School in Glendale<span style="color: Red;">*</span>together Friday —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>one more school day ahead and then the long Presidents Day<span style="color: Red;">*</span>weekend.
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A teacher says her sister was of one of the 15-year-old female students found dead at an Arizona high school. VPC
Crying students leave a bus that took them away from Independence High School Friday morning after two students were shot and the campus was locked down.(Photo: Tom Tingle, Tom Tingle/The Republic)
Phuong Kieu and her sister May drove<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to Independence High School in Glendale<span style="color: Red;">*</span>together Friday —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>one more school day ahead and then the long Presidents Day<span style="color: Red;">*</span>weekend.
Phuong, a science teacher, and May, a 15-year-old sophomore, parted ways not too long before classes were to begin at 8 a.m.
Glendale police received a call Friday morning that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shots were fired at the school, and the campus<span style="color: Red;">*</span>went into lockdown. Phuong, locked in her classroom with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>students,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>watched the news. When she heard reports that two girls were shot, both of them sophomores, she grew concerned.
“That’s when I had a bad feeling that it could be her,” she said Friday afternoon, her voice breaking.
She said she called the attendance office and asked someone to pull up her sister’s schedule so she could contact May’s first-period teacher.
She was put on hold for several minutes.
Then, she said, a school official came to her classroom and said, “We have to go upstairs.”
The death of May Kieu and another 15-year-old sophomore sent shock waves across the Independence campus.
The girls were known by many on campus as a couple, and investigators believe the shootings were a murder-suicide.
The teens were found<span style="color: Red;">*</span>next to each other in a covered patio area outside.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The girls each suffered<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a single gunshot wound<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and were declared dead at the scene, Glendale Police Officer Tracey Breeden said. A<span style="color: Red;">*</span>note and a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>handgun were found nearby.
"Investigators working the case say evidence found at the scene leads them to believe that one female took the life of the other female before taking her own life," Glendale police said in a statement late Friday.
Police said they would not<span style="color: Red;">*</span>provide the names of the victims. Phuong confirmed her sister's death.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>She also said there was no gun in May's house.
J.C. Robertson, a junior at the school, said he bumped into May in the cafeteria Friday morning, and she looked “extremely happy,” just as she did<span style="color: Red;">*</span>every other morning.
“I asked her how her morning was and she said, 'It’s going good,'” J.C.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
She said May typically would join a girlfriend each morning after leaving the cafeteria, and they would hang out together.
“They were both amazing people,” J.C.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
May and her friend met while attending Coyote Ridge Elementary School in Glendale and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had been dating for more than two years, according to their friends and their social-media accounts.
Phuong said the two were not a couple. But<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Glendale police said,<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>"Information gathered by detectives reveal the two girls were very close friends, appearing to also be in a relationship."
There are dozens of photos of them cuddling.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Photos of them together from both girls’ social-media<span style="color: Red;">*</span>accounts have garnered dozens of comments from friends mourning their death and wishing them peace.
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