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tblue37

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15. Haing S. Ngor (the actor who starred in that film as Dith Pran) was murdered
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:07 PM
Mar 2017

by men who were trying to rob him.

Charged with the murder were three reputed members of the "Oriental Lazy Boyz" street gang, who had prior arrests for snatching purses and jewelry. They were tried together in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, though their cases were heard by three separate juries.[8] Prosecutors argued that they killed Ngor because, after handing over his gold Rolex watch willingly, he refused to give them a locket that contained a photo of his deceased wife, My-Huoy.


He was also a Cambodian who fled to the US after been imprisoned in a Khmer Rouge concentration camp.

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