At approx. 11 am on Friday, June 27th, Pinal County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a 911 call from David Neang, 24, that his girlfriend had been murdered & he had been stabbed by a white male who had broken into their residence on the 4100 block of North Cambria, east of Queen Creek. Deputies broke down the front door of the residence, which was deadbolted from inside, & found Neang and his girlfriend, Jenny Vanderboom, 23, in the upstairs bedroom.
Vanderboom was pronounced deceased on scene & Neang was transported to a Phoenix-area hospital, where he underwent exploratory surgery & was sedated overnight. PCSO homicide detectives conducted an investigation of the scene & concluded that there was no evidence of a third-party break in, as indicated in Neang's story.
The morning of June 28th, Neang was pronounced to have non-life-threatening injuries & to be alert & coherent for questioning. Neang provided a videotaped confessed to PCSO homicide detectives that he killed Vanderboom during a domestic dispute & then stabbed himself twice before he called 911. Neang is officially under arrest & in custody & will be transferred to the Pinal County Jail Medical Facility. He will be charged with second degree murder under domestic violence.
Vanderboom's body was transported last night to the Tucson Medical Examiner's Office & an autopsy will be performed at the beginning of the week. Official cause of death is pending autopsy. The N. Cambria residence was being rented by the victim's mother & the victim's child, who was not at the residence at the time & who is not the child of the suspect, is in the custody of the surrogate grandparents.