Eugena Mae Upshaw was a 21-year-old female; publicly available records do not specify her race or ethnicity, but they show that she was living in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she died on March 5, 2004. Genealogy records confirm her birth on December 4, 1982, and death on that date in 2004, while gun-violence memorial listings place her loss specifically in Scottsdale, identifying her as a victim of gun violence rather than a natural or accidental death.
Advocacy documentation created to memorialize victims of intimate partner homicide provides the clearest narrative of what happened to her. In a remembrance entry focused on domestic-violence victims, Eugena is listed by full name, with the date and place of her death, and it notes that her killing “has left behind her 2 young children to grow up without their Mother in their lives,” indicating she was a young parent whose death permanently altered the lives of her children. The same source describes how, on March 5, 2004, she was shot and murdered while sitting in her car at a Scottsdale shopping center by her husband, identified as 30-year-old Hung Van Le, characterizing the crime as a public, gun-involved homicide rooted in intimate-partner violence.
The Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s fatality reports, compiled into statewide “Domestic Violence Related Deaths” tables, list Eugena among the 2004 intimate-partner homicide victims. In those tables, her entry records her age as 21, the location of the killing as Scottsdale, and the cause of death as gunshot, matching the description that she was shot to death. In the column identifying the relationship between the accused and the victim, the report lists “Husband*,” and a legend in the same document explains that an asterisk indicates the offender committed suicide. Taken together, the fatality report and the advocacy remembrance portray her death as a domestic-violence murder carried out by her spouse, followed by his suicide, with no suggestion of any other person being involved in the shooting.
Regarding suspects, arrests, or prosecutions, the available online records are consistent in treating Hung Van Le as the sole identified perpetrator in Eugena Mae Upshaw’s killing. The domestic-violence fatality tables explicitly label him as the husband-offender and mark him with the suicide indicator, and the remembrance site echoes this by naming him as the person who shot and murdered her in her car. Because the same official-derived report states that an asterisk denotes an offender who has died by suicide, and there is no mention in these sources of criminal charges, trials, or convictions related to her case, the public documentation indicates that law enforcement identified her husband as the shooter but that his death by suicide meant no arrest, prosecution, or additional suspects were ever recorded in connection with the homicide.
