FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA - A man has been sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of shooting his girlfriend before driving her to a hospital and lying about what happened.
The suspect, Huy "Max" Nguyen has been sentenced to 23 years in a Virginia prison for the second-degree murder of 38-year-old Alison "Kate" Laporta, WRC reported. Nguyen was 47-years-old when he was convicted in September 2025 of murder using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
On April 17, 2024, Laporta was shot in her upper body, the Fairfax County Police Department said at the time. Nguyen took her to Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, and she was later transferred to another hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Just before midnight on that day, officers spoke with Nguyen at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital. He told investigators that he and Laporta were in a parking lot in nearby Annandale when a random bullet hit her, according to prosecutors. As they investigated further, "detectives disproved that allegation" and determined that Nguyen shot his girlfriend inside a vehicle and drove her to the hospital.
They found the firearm near his home in Lorton, about 20 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Nguyen is said to have admitted the parking lot story was a lie, changing his story to say Laporta tried to shoot at him and then shot herself, Law & Crime reported.
His defense team introduced hundreds of pages of medical records from two years before the shooting, when Laporta allegedly had a mental health crisis and was admitted to a hospital.
Prosecutors claimed that Laporta told more than 400 lies. Prosecutors called men to the witness stand who were with the couple on the day Laporta was shot. The witnesses said Nguyen and Laporta had been fighting at a pool hall and that the suspect had made threatening statements.
"The only way this argument ends is with a bullet," one witness recalled Nguyen as saying. "I'm going to shoot this girl," Nguyen allegedly added. Despite Nguyen's conviction and sentencing, Laporta's family sought more. "I think he should have gotten the full 40 and plus some," said Laporta's daughter, Katlin Lasky.
"[He] murdered my daughter," said Tim Pounsberry, Laporta's father. He said that the murder brought "absolute destruction" to the family.
The suspect, Huy "Max" Nguyen has been sentenced to 23 years in a Virginia prison for the second-degree murder of 38-year-old Alison "Kate" Laporta, WRC reported. Nguyen was 47-years-old when he was convicted in September 2025 of murder using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
On April 17, 2024, Laporta was shot in her upper body, the Fairfax County Police Department said at the time. Nguyen took her to Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, and she was later transferred to another hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Just before midnight on that day, officers spoke with Nguyen at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital. He told investigators that he and Laporta were in a parking lot in nearby Annandale when a random bullet hit her, according to prosecutors. As they investigated further, "detectives disproved that allegation" and determined that Nguyen shot his girlfriend inside a vehicle and drove her to the hospital.
They found the firearm near his home in Lorton, about 20 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Nguyen is said to have admitted the parking lot story was a lie, changing his story to say Laporta tried to shoot at him and then shot herself, Law & Crime reported.
His defense team introduced hundreds of pages of medical records from two years before the shooting, when Laporta allegedly had a mental health crisis and was admitted to a hospital.
Prosecutors claimed that Laporta told more than 400 lies. Prosecutors called men to the witness stand who were with the couple on the day Laporta was shot. The witnesses said Nguyen and Laporta had been fighting at a pool hall and that the suspect had made threatening statements.
"The only way this argument ends is with a bullet," one witness recalled Nguyen as saying. "I'm going to shoot this girl," Nguyen allegedly added. Despite Nguyen's conviction and sentencing, Laporta's family sought more. "I think he should have gotten the full 40 and plus some," said Laporta's daughter, Katlin Lasky.
"[He] murdered my daughter," said Tim Pounsberry, Laporta's father. He said that the murder brought "absolute destruction" to the family.
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