The Daily Breeze education reporter died Friday night after being taken off life support with his family by his side. Here's the Daily Breeze story and blog post by his colleague Larry Altman. The OC Weekly, where Nguyen also worked, has a news item up as well and Channel 9 did a story. Nguyen's organs were donated. He went into cardiac arrest while playing soccer a week ago.
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