From: nguyen@enbp.fsu.edu (Lucy Nguyen)
Subject: Re: [SOC] Group beating death of a young college student because of racial difference
Keywords: Group beating death of a young college student because of racial difference
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:34:56 GMT

In article <20012@drutx.ATT.COM>, nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Christopher Chu) writes:
> Dear Netters,
> 
> I just recent heard this shocking news from USENET soc.culture.vietnamese
> newsgroup.
> 
> This is for sure much more fundamentally barbaric than the case of Rodney
> King that has raised the Amererican National Headlines: it was group of
> young poeple mostly college students who beat a 19-year old Vietnamese
> student to death because of racial difference, in a college party, Coral
> Springs, Florida.
> 
> It's so hard to believe there are still running-loose killers who are
> wearing student clothes in our college, but this is definitely true.

I object. These guys were not college students, they were high school dropouts.
My cousin went to another high school in Coral Springs, and she knew of this 
group of people. They were always bad, and would abuse anyone. Most of the
Americans knew enough to avoid any response to their provocations.(Perhaps I
should say they were afraid enough, and knew of the groups reputation). It's
unfortunate that Luyen was the one who didn't know about their rep. Those people
are scum and don't care about anyone but themselves. They were a disaster waiting
to happen, but you guys wouldn't have cared much had it been an american beaten to
death.

Lucy


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> Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
> Subject: In the memorial of Luyen Phan Nguyen
> Message-ID: <4832@daily-planet.concordia.ca>
> Date: 30 Aug 92 20:24:14 GMT
> Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
> Lines: 86
> 
> This article was extracted from Forum ,Coral Springs-Parkland
> 				Vol 23, No.34
> 				Thursday, August 20,1992
> 
> 			VICTIM WAS 'NICE GUY'
> 
> 	Luyen Phan Nguyen beaten to death in Coral Springs.
> 
> 					by LARRY KAHN
> 					Forum Staff
> 
> 	The last time Jeff Braverman saw Luyen Phan Nguyen,
> Nguyen was celebrating his graduation from Coral Sprins High     
> School and looking forward to his first semester of college.
> 
> 	It was the spring, last year, and Nguyen had just
> graduated with Braverman's son, Dylan, now a Florida State
> University student. They were excited about the future.
> 
> 	"He came over in his tuxedo and that was the last time
> we saw him." Jeff Braverman said. "He was not just a nice kid.
> He was a nice ,nice guy. You would be proud to have him as
> your son".
> 
> 	But no one will ever know how the doctor-to-be's life
> would have turned out.
> 
> 	Last weekend, Nguyen was savagely, fatally beaten during
> what Coral Springs police are calling a brutal racially          
> motivated attack by five young white men.
> 
> 	He was killed, police said, only because he was
> Vietnamese .
> 
> 	Nguyen, 19, died at Broward General Medical Center
> about 5:30 a.m. Monday after the Saturday night beating at a
> party at the Springfield Apartments, 9040 Royal Palm Blvd.,
> police said.
> 
> 	Five face second-degree murder charges, with more         
> expected: Coral Springs residents Michael Jamerson, 20, of the
> 4300 block Northwest 80th Avenue and Christopher Anderson, 18,
> of the 8100 block of Northwest 2nd Court; Tamarac residents
> Michael Primato, 18, and Brad Mills, 19; and John Liptak, 18,
> of Margate.
> 
> 	Nguyen's was the second slaying handled by Coral Springs
> police in three days. Retired school Principal Nathanile 
> Hankerson ,64, was found dead of a gunshot to the neck in a
> burning car behind the Turtle Run Wal-Mart on Friday.
> 
> 	Nguyen's family couldn't be reached for comment but
> people who knew him remember a very intelligent teen who was
> happy around people, dreamed of being a doctor and loved getting
> involved in various activitives.
> 
> 	"He was one of those young men who was immersed in every
> part of student life."including sports and extracurricular clubs,
> Coral Springs High School Principal Bruce Wagar said.
> 
> 	He also was incredibly bright.
> 
> 	"He had a whole lot of scholarship money. When he left
> here, he had over $8,500 in scholarship money every year. That
> was confrimed," Wagar said. "There were 600 students in his
> graduating class. He was in the top 20."
> 
> 	Nguyen was entering his second year at the Unversity
> of Miami. He was a pre-med student who, a UM source said,
> carried a grade point average of about 3.8 out of 4.0 .
> 
> 	"You can't say anything bad about this guy." Braverman
> said."He had one goal in life and that was to make his parents
> proud."
> 
> 	He also said that Nguyen's father told him early in his
> life that his ethnic origin could result in racial slurs or
> discrimination coming his way. His father taught him to take it
> in but not let it consume him.
> 
> 	"His father told him, 'You're Oriental and people are
> going to call you names, act differenct around you. You turn
> the other cheek, '"Braverman said. "He did that".
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