On the night of February 25th, 1996, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles,

celebrations from the Lunar New Year were just wrapping up.

It was a Sunday, and one of that winter's coldest nights.

At around 8.45 PM, a Cambodian refugee named Hang Norr pulled into his carport in Chinatown and was shot

shot dead as he exited the car.

In the 90s, Los Angeles had a reputation for street violence.

But this was different.

The first stories were Oscar winner slain.

I mean, it would never have gotten that kind of attention if it was just a random killing on the street.

He won an Academy Award portraying the horrors of his native country and then he's murdered.

He survived the killing fields of Cambodia only to be killed in Los Angeles's killing fields.

Police charged three Asian teenagers from a neighborhood gang.

They say the boys shot hang nor in a robbery gone wrong.

But the teens consistently maintain their innocence.

And many people in the legal community and the Cambodian

community think the LAPD got the wrong guides. The police officers had a

script. The script was that this was a gang-related crime.

I remember he's telling me that those three people that got into jail, they didn't do it, they didn't commit the crime.

So we start looking into the murder ourselves and discover that it's hardly the open and shut case

the police want us to think it is.

If this is truly a robbery, why did they not take Hangnor's wallet full of cash?

And it turns out Hang had more than his share of enemies.

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