Yoshihiro Hattori was a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student living in the United States.
On the night of October 31, 1992, he and his American friend were dressed in costumes to attend a Halloween party in the Baton Rouge area. Due to a mix-up with the address, they rang the doorbell at the wrong house.
The homeowner, startled to see two people in costumes on her dark porch, called her husband. He came out armed with a revolver and shouted at the young man not to move (“Freeze!”). Hattori, who didn’t speak English very well and thought it was a joke or part of the party, smiled, said, “We’re here for the party!” and kept walking toward him. The homeowner shot him point-blank in the chest.
The young man died in the ambulance, marking one of the most tragic and shocking real-life Halloween incidents on an international scale