On a summer night in Lowell, Massachusetts, what began as a birthday celebration on August 12, 2006, quickly devolved into a scene of deadly violence. Samnang Oth, a 21-year-old male of Cambodian descent, had traveled from his home in Chelsea with the intention of only staying at the party on Royal Street for a couple of hours. Tragically, a promise to his family to return home would go unfulfilled.
That evening, tensions between two rival gangs, the Asian Boyz and the Bloods, erupted at
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