salazar, a prominent journalist killed by the l.a. sheriff's department. >> reporter: the night had started with 27-year-old chin out with friends. his bachelor party at a bar, chin then encounters ronald workers, recently laid off as nbc news reported at the time. >> inside, vincent tangled with evidence. general foreman at chrysler. evans reportedly yelled across the bar at vincent. it's because of -- like you that we're out of work. >> the federal indictment says evans called chin a, quote, chink, and nip. a shove, then a fight, then all were kicked out. outside, it continued. evans pulled out a bat and chin and his friends flee. >> vincent chin and jimmy stop running here, sat down on this fence outside mcdonald's on woodward avenue waiting for their friends to come by in a car or taxi or a bus, some way to get out of the neighborhood. >> but they didn't get out and they confront chin there. evans still had his bat and used it to crush chin's skull into the street gutter. later at the hospital, chin's mother lilly sat by her brain dead son. >> i called, vincent, vincent, mama, mama coming. vincent, mama coming. vincent, mama coming. i call him many time. no feeling. >> a year later