(Lily Chin, Vikki Wong and Vincent Chin, Vincent Chin, Ronald Ebens, Michael Nitz)
"Because of little (expletive) like you, a lot of Americans are losing their jobs." - Ronald Ebens' comment to Vincent Chin, according to Gary Koivu (StoryCorps)
"He [Chin] sucker-punched me and knocked me off my chair. That's how it started. I didn't even know he was coming. If he hadn't sucker punched me in the bar...nothing would have ever happened. They forced the issue. And from there after the anger built up, that's where things went to hell." - Ronald Ebens, Chin's accused killer in interview 30 years later (Guillermo)
I should've been smart enough to just call it a day. After they started to disperse, [it was time to] get in the car and go home. . .. I went over that a hundred, maybe 1,000 times in my mind the last 30 years. It doesn't make sense of any kind that I would swing a bat at his head when my stepson is right behind him. That makes no sense at all." -Ronald Ebens, Chin's accused killer in interview 30 years later (Guillermo) |
"He was swinging the baseball bat like he was swinging for a home run." - Gary Koivu, Vincent Chin's friend (StoryCorps)
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"I can't believe that someone could hate Vince so much that he would kill him in such a cruel way, like an animal." - Vikki Wong, Vincent's fiancee (Weingarten)
Katelyn Khounsourath
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