Thang Lilly Nguyen

On a summer afternoon in Portland, Oregon, the life of a 46-year-old Asian woman named Thang Lilly Nguyen came to a tragic and violent end. It was July 25, 1993, and gunshots echoed through the 1400 block of SE Belmont shortly after noon. A neighbor, hearing the alarming sounds, discovered Nguyen, the owner of a video rental store at 1403 SE Belmont, lying on the sidewalk in front of her business. She was bleeding profusely from gunshot wounds. In her final moments, she managed to utter the haun ...