Kai Lor

Death by Force

In the fall of 1993, the life of 19-year-old Kai Lor, a Hmong male, came to a violent and abrupt end in St. Paul, Minnesota. On the evening of October 12th, Lor, along with two companions, was involved in an attempted robbery at the Hampden Food Cooperative. The situation quickly escalated when an off-duty St. Paul police officer, David Timm, who was in the store at the time, intervened. In the ensuing confrontation, both Kai Lor and his accomplice, Bruce Teng Thao, were shot and killed by the o ...Read More

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