GeneChing
08-30-2017, 08:26 AM
This is tragic. Ann Woo was a good friend and close associate of Kung Fu Tai Chi. She has supplied CPAA (http://cpaasv.info/)'s wushu carpet for our Tiger Claw Elite KungFuMagazine.com Championships (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/info/tournament/PastEvents.html) for years. We are all shocked and heartbroken.
San Jose police investigate Chinese performing arts director’s death (http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/28/san-jose-police-investigating-chinese-performing-arts-of-america-creative-directors-death-as-homicide/)
Ann Woo, 75, co-founded Chinese Performing Arts of America in 1991
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Ann Woo, the creative director of the Chinese Performing Arts of America, was involved in a physical altercation just after 3 p.m. Friday in San Jose and later died. Police are investigating her death as a homicide.
By JASON GREEN | jason.green@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: August 28, 2017 at 7:14 pm | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 5:59 am
SAN JOSE — Detectives are investigating the death of a distinguished Chinese arts director who died at a hospital Friday, two weeks after she was involved in a confrontation outside a bubble tea shop in West San Jose, authorities said.
Ann Woo, 75, of Cupertino, got into “some type of physical altercation” just after 3 p.m. Aug. 11 on the 6100 block of Bollinger Road, said Sgt. Enrique Garcia of the San Jose Police Department. Woo was taken to a hospital, where she died Friday.
The case has since been handed off to homicide investigators, which is protocol in deaths that don’t have a conclusive explanation. The cause of death has not been announced pending the completion of an autopsy by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.
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If the death is ruled a homicide, it would be the 19th of the year in San Jose. There were 35 homicides this time last year.
Additional information about the case was not available Monday.
Woo, an electrical engineer with at least nine patents to her name, moved from Hong Kong to the Bay Area when she was 14. In 1991, she co-founded Chinese Performing Arts of America, or CPAA, to provide a cultural outlet for the South Bay’s growing Chinese population.
An academy offering classes in Chinese traditional and contemporary performing arts is housed at the organization’s 14,000-square-foot headquarters at 6148 Bollinger Road.
“This is where we were needed,” Woo said in a 2006 interview with the Mercury News, referring to CPAA’s decision to set up shop in the South Bay. “These people wanted their children to learn about Chinese culture, and they were able and willing to pay for it.”
Woo also served as a dancer, choreographer, and playwright with CPAA. Her work drew recognition from KQED and former Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss, both of whom called her an Asian hero. In 2008, she received a lifetime achievement award from World Arts West.
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While police were tight-lipped about the case, some residents familiar with the case took to a private social network to share their observations from that day.
One person posted that Woo and a colleague were involved in a disagreement that escalated into a violent assault outside of TeaTop, a bubble tea shop next door to CPAA’s headquarters in a shopping center at Bollinger Road and Miller Avenue. Another poster did not see an assault but recalled seeing Woo on the ground with blood around her head and vomiting uncontrollably, a sign of possible head trauma.
Anyone with information about the case can contact Detective Brian Meeker or Detective Sgt. Raul Martinez at 408-277-5283, or leave a tip with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-STOP (7867) or svcrimestoppers.org. Tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward.
San Jose police investigate Chinese performing arts director’s death (http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/28/san-jose-police-investigating-chinese-performing-arts-of-america-creative-directors-death-as-homicide/)
Ann Woo, 75, co-founded Chinese Performing Arts of America in 1991
http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ssjm1003beijingopera_lc_11.jpg?w=694
LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group
Ann Woo, the creative director of the Chinese Performing Arts of America, was involved in a physical altercation just after 3 p.m. Friday in San Jose and later died. Police are investigating her death as a homicide.
By JASON GREEN | jason.green@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: August 28, 2017 at 7:14 pm | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 5:59 am
SAN JOSE — Detectives are investigating the death of a distinguished Chinese arts director who died at a hospital Friday, two weeks after she was involved in a confrontation outside a bubble tea shop in West San Jose, authorities said.
Ann Woo, 75, of Cupertino, got into “some type of physical altercation” just after 3 p.m. Aug. 11 on the 6100 block of Bollinger Road, said Sgt. Enrique Garcia of the San Jose Police Department. Woo was taken to a hospital, where she died Friday.
The case has since been handed off to homicide investigators, which is protocol in deaths that don’t have a conclusive explanation. The cause of death has not been announced pending the completion of an autopsy by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.
Like our Facebook page for more conversation and news coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.
If the death is ruled a homicide, it would be the 19th of the year in San Jose. There were 35 homicides this time last year.
Additional information about the case was not available Monday.
Woo, an electrical engineer with at least nine patents to her name, moved from Hong Kong to the Bay Area when she was 14. In 1991, she co-founded Chinese Performing Arts of America, or CPAA, to provide a cultural outlet for the South Bay’s growing Chinese population.
An academy offering classes in Chinese traditional and contemporary performing arts is housed at the organization’s 14,000-square-foot headquarters at 6148 Bollinger Road.
“This is where we were needed,” Woo said in a 2006 interview with the Mercury News, referring to CPAA’s decision to set up shop in the South Bay. “These people wanted their children to learn about Chinese culture, and they were able and willing to pay for it.”
Woo also served as a dancer, choreographer, and playwright with CPAA. Her work drew recognition from KQED and former Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss, both of whom called her an Asian hero. In 2008, she received a lifetime achievement award from World Arts West.
Stay up to date on breaking news with our mobile app from the Apple app store or the Google Play store.
While police were tight-lipped about the case, some residents familiar with the case took to a private social network to share their observations from that day.
One person posted that Woo and a colleague were involved in a disagreement that escalated into a violent assault outside of TeaTop, a bubble tea shop next door to CPAA’s headquarters in a shopping center at Bollinger Road and Miller Avenue. Another poster did not see an assault but recalled seeing Woo on the ground with blood around her head and vomiting uncontrollably, a sign of possible head trauma.
Anyone with information about the case can contact Detective Brian Meeker or Detective Sgt. Raul Martinez at 408-277-5283, or leave a tip with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-STOP (7867) or svcrimestoppers.org. Tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward.