Owner found dead in Bucks nail salon

A Philadelphia woman died at the hands of an unknown assailant Monday in the Bucks County nail shop that she owned, according to police.

Annie Huynh, 30, was found dead after police went to the store, Kim's Nails, when employees arrived there about 9:20 a.m. and found the business still locked.

Police would not say where Huynh's body was found in the store, which is in the Pike Plaza Shopping Center, on Second Street Pike in Upper Southampton Township.

No obvious signs of trauma were visible on her body, and it was only after an autopsy was completed Monday night that Huynh's death was declared a homicide, said Upper Southampton Police Chief Ron MacPherson.

He declined to release any details regarding how she may have been killed or a motive.

Huynh was last seen dropping her son off at day care about 8 a.m., and police believe that the homicide occurred sometime between then and 9:20 a.m.

MacPherson said that Huynh had just the one child and that police were "not positive" of her marital status.

Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler said that investigators are keeping what details they do have close to the vest so as not to impede the investigation.

"We need to keep back information the doer would know and others would not," he said.

Anyone with information on Huynh's death is asked to call the Upper Southampton Police Department at 215-364-5000.