COMPTON : $10,000 Reward Offered in Riot-Related Death
A $10,000 reward has been offered in the shooting death of an immigrant from Vietnam who was killed in April at a Compton intersection during the unrest that followed the verdicts in the Rodney G. King beating case, it was announced Monday.
Thanh Lam, 25, a Chinese man who moved to California more than a decade ago, was gunned down on the afternoon of April 30 as he sat in his truck waiting for the light to change at West Alondra Boulevard and Willowbrook Avenue. Lam had just returned from his family’s Compton market, which had been torched by vandals during the rioting.
In announcing the reward, members of a joint local and federal task force on riot-related crimes said investigators consider the shooting a possible hate crime and are searching for four black men who were riding in “a white or gray full-sized, older model American-made car.”
Ronald L. Iden, assistant FBI special agent in charge, asked anyone with information on the shooting to contact the task force at (800) 854-TIPS.
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