
Arrest Made 7 Years After Teen Refugee From Myanmar Was Fatally Shot At Work
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A gun recovered during a narcotics traffic stop helped lead to charges in the death of 15-year-old December Htoo in Kansas.
A Kansas man was arrested nearly seven years after police say he fatally shot a 15-year-old refugee from Myanmar in an attempted robbery at a laundromat where the teenager worked, police in Kansas City announced Thursday.
Luis Samano, 24, is charged with murder and attempted aggravated robbery in the death of high school student December Htoo.
A co-worker found Htoo dead on the morning of Nov. 18, 2017, inside Kansas City’s Maple Hill Laundromat, according to NBC affiliate KSHB.
Htoo was lying face up next to a washing machine with multiple gunshot wounds, a police spokesperson told ABC News at the time. There were no signs of forced entry, no cash was stolen, and nothing had been broken at the scene.
Htoo’s case would remain cold until September 2021, when police recovered a gun used in his killing during a narcotics traffic stop. It went cold again until May of this year, when detectives obtained new information through interviews and reexamination of surveillance footage.