Two men linked to slaying of Fil-Am nurse in Houston

Nurse Glenser Soliman was found dead in February. HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF

HOUSTON, Texas — Two Houston-area men, one a Filipino American nurse and the other a Vietnamese American student, may have been lured to their deaths by the killers through a dating app, Harris County sheriff’s investigators said Monday, Aug. 7.

Investigators didn’t publicly name the app but warned the public to be wary of meeting strangers online.

Police said the killers may have been targeting Asian men when they went after Glenser Soliman, a 44-year-old St. Luke’s Medical Center nurse whose body was found Feb. 25, and An Vinh Nguyen, a 26-year-old University of Houston student last seen March 31, according to a Houston Chronicle report.

Both of the victims’ vehicles were found abandoned. Nguyen’s credit cards were taken, but it is not clear if items were stolen from Soliman. There may be other victims, police said. 


Police said robbery seems the most likely motive but did not rule out the possibility that the slayings were the work of serial killers.

Two cousins in northwest Harris County are suspects in the deaths. Brandon Alexander Lyons, 18, accused of strangling Soliman and striking him with an unknown object, has been charged with capital murder. Lyons has been in the Harris County Jail under a $200,000 bond since April, when he was charged with stealing Soliman’s vehicle.

Lyons’ cousin, Jerrett Jamal Allen, 26, a suspect in Nguyen’s death, is at large but has been charged with unlawfully using Nguyen’s credit cards. Police said Lyon’s was last seen in April, using the cards in El Paso, Texas