While Dr. Louis Chen was working as an attending physician at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Minneapolis, they began the long process of having a child through surrogacy, according to several friends of the couple, reports Seattle Times. .
Their child was not adopted from outside the country, as originally reported, but conceived with Chen's sperm and the egg of an anonymous Taiwanese woman, and carried to term by a surrogate mother from Oregon, the friends said. When the child was born nearly three years ago, he was adopted by Eric Cooper and named Cooper Chen.
"They loved that baby. They adored him," said a friend who had gone to medical school with Chen and is now a physician in Massachusetts. "It was one thing they always agreed on, and it was really very sweet."
Chen, 39, is now accused of killing Cooper, 29, and their son Thursday in the First Hill apartment they shared. A King County District Court judge has determined there is probable cause to hold Chen in custody on investigation of two counts of aggravated murder.
Friends of the couple as well as a relative of Cooper described their relationship and their efforts to start a family in interviews Monday with The Times. All spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The two men met about 12 years ago when Chen, an immigrant from Taiwan, was attending the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Cooper was a 17-year-old high-school senior in Tinley Park, Ill., friends said.
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