A day later the police said the confrontation, with three Vietnamese men, was apparently spontaneous.
He also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving him permanently blind in one eye.
That fact is small comfort to the Vietnamese man who suffered a hammer blow to the head.
An hour later the boy returned with a Vietnamese man dressed in a white suit.
Four young Vietnamese men held about 30 people hostage in an electronics store for more than eight hours.
They had expected their daughter to marry a Vietnamese man.
She learned with sadness in her heart that their recent one night of love had been after he had met a young Vietnamese man.
And when he's forced to kill a Vietnamese man who attacks him, he is deeply remorseful.
He told her that the Vietnamese men and the rest of the women had gone on their way to Malaysia.
In 1907 he opened a patriotic modern school for young Vietnamese men and women.