Assistant women’s basketball coach found dead in Irvine

By
Nereida Moreno
– Posted on February 4, 2013Posted in: Campus News, Local News, News
Monica Quan

Monica Quan

An assistant coach for Cal State Fullerton’s women’s basketball team was found dead Sunday night in a parking structure in Irvine.

The bodies of assistant coach Monica Quan, 28, and her fiancee, Keith Lawrence, 27, were discovered by a passerby at around 9:10 p.m. in Lawrence’s car on the top floor of the structure.

Police said Quan and Lawrence are victims of a shooting that is being investigated as a double-homicide. There is no suspect information as of Monday.

There are no surveillance cameras in the high-end apartment complex at 2100 Scholarship where the couple lived.

Information on the official cause of death will be released when the autopsy is completed Tuesday.

Quan was in her second season as an assistant coach under Marcia Foster, head coach of the Titan women’s basketball team.

Quan began her career as an assistant coach for the Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks
at Cal State Long Beach, and had previously played two seasons with the 49ers from 2003-2005 before transferring to Concordia University in Irvine.

 

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About Nereida Moreno

Nereida is currently a junior at CSUF. She is majoring in Print Journalism and minoring in American Studies. Serving as a Layout Editor in the Fall, Nereida is returning this semester as a News Editor. She wishes to become a media and culture writer, following in the footsteps of her idols David Carr and Rob Sheffield. One day she will work at Rolling Stone, be it in the mail room, or as a janitor… but hopefully as a contributing editor. In her spare time, she obsesses over the Beatles (George Harrison, in particular), which frequently appear in her writing.