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A Plot Among Straight-A Students Unravels (Image Credits: Sbsun.com)
Orange County courts revisited the brutal 1992 slaying of honors student Stuart Tay this week as convicted lookout Kirn Young Kim testified he never expected the plot against his classmate to turn deadly.[1][2]
A Plot Among Straight-A Students Unravels
Stuart Tay, a 17-year-old Foothill High School student from a Singaporean immigrant family, fell victim to former friends on New Year’s Eve 1992. Robert Chan, an 18-year-old valedictorian contender at Sunny Hills High School, orchestrated the killing out of fears Tay would betray a planned computer equipment theft.[3] The group lured Tay to Abraham Acosta’s backyard in Buena Park, where Chan and Acosta beat him for seven minutes with a baseball bat and sledgehammer as he pleaded for mercy.
They forced rubbing alcohol down his throat and sealed his mouth with duct tape, leading to his death by asphyxiation on his own vomit. The perpetrators buried his body in a shallow grave they had dug the day before, then staged a carjacking by driving his vehicle to Compton.[1][4]
Kim’s Claim: Disbelief in a ‘Ridiculous’ Scheme
Kirn Young Kim, then 16 and himself an honors student, waited in his car nearby as the lookout. He later took Tay’s keys and gloves from Chan, drove the car as directed, and claimed ignorance of the fatal outcome.[2] Kim testified that Chan, known for empty threats like false claims of past killings, repeatedly mentioned murdering…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-03-04 08:53:00
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