Terrifying & True | Yoshihiro Hattori: The Halloween Wrong-Door Shooting in Louisiana

Yoshihiro “Yoshi” Hattori was a sixteen-year-old Japanese exchange student looking for a Halloween party when he reached the wrong house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On October 17, 1992, homeowner Rodney Peairs shot him after a confrontation at the door. Terrifying & True examines the mistaken address, cultural misunderstanding, and sharply different criminal and civil outcomes: Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, then held liable in the civil case. How did a teenager’s night of celebration become a tragedy that reached families on both sides of the Pacific?

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