Yoshihiro Hattori was killed on Oct. 17, 1992 when he mistook the
address on his way to a Halloween party in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and
was shot by the owner of the house, Rodney Peairs. In November 2003
Clinton met with his parents.
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Clinton to meet parents of Japanese boy shot in U.S.
Monday, November 17, 2003 at 02:03 JST
?Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will meet with the parents of
Yoshihiro Hattori, a Japanese high school exchange student who was
shot dead in the United States, when he visits a university in Aichi
Prefecture on Wednesday, a friend of the Hattoris said Sunday.?
?Clinton will meet with Hattori\'s mother Mieko, 55, and father
Masaichi, 56, for the first time in 10 years at Aichi Gakuin
University in the city of Nisshin where he is scheduled to give a
lecture, Hiromi Bando said. In October 1992, Yoshihiro, 16, mistook
the address on his way to a Halloween party in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
and was shot by the owner of the house.?