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Yoshihiro Yoshi Hattori

Case from Baton-rouge, LA dated Oct 17, 1992

Victim Details

Yoshihiro Yoshi Hattori

Male

Asian

Baton-rouge

LA

1992-10-17

16

Yoshihiro

Yoshi Hattori

07/18/2026

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In the fall of 1992, Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old male Japanese exchange student, was living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a local family. On the evening of October 17, 1992, Hattori and his host brother, Webb Haymaker, set out for a Halloween party. Dressed in a tuxedo in imitation of John Travolta's character from 'Saturday Night Fever,' Hattori and Haymaker, who was dressed as an accident victim, mistakenly arrived at the wrong house.

The home they approached belonged to Rodney P ...
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  • AFS-USA: Yoshi Hattori Memorial Scholarship
  • the Guardian: How the mother of Japanese student shot dead became a force for US gun reform
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    I’ve been thinking a lot about Yoshi's friends and family back in Japan. It must have been so incr... ...Read More
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