NEWS
May 4, 1994 | RENE LYNCH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A jury took less than three hours Tuesday to find a teen-ager guilty of first-degree murder for orchestrating the 1992 New Year's Eve ambush slaying of high school honors student Stuart A. Tay. Robert Chan, 19, of Fullerton, a onetime candidate for valedictorian, now faces life in prison without parole for his role in Tay's death. The 17-year-old Orange resident was beaten with baseball bats, forced to swallow rubbing alcohol and then left to die in a shallow grave in a Buena Park back yard.
NEWS
May 8, 1994 | RENE LYNCH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Robert Chan was one of the brightest students to ever walk the halls at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton but he was also typical teen: He agonized over acne and clothes and had to work up the nerve to ask out a pretty cheerleader. "I don't date, you know, I don't know any girls," Chan told a Superior Court jury, shrugging shyly and looking boyish in a pale yellow sweater with a white collar peeking over the top.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 31, 1993 | DOREEN CARVAJAL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The parents of teen-age slaying victim Stuart Anthony Tay charged in an unusual civil lawsuit Thursday that the parents of their son's accused killers contributed to the tragedy through lax and careless supervision of their children. Attorneys for Alfred and Linda Tay, whose 17-year-old son was slain last New Year's Eve, demanded unspecified damages from the parents of four juvenile suspects in the case. "Parents should be responsible for bad parenting," Mark E.
NEWS
January 6, 1993 | ERIC YOUNG and MATT LAIT, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Honors student Stuart Anthony Tay, 17, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave three days after his family reported him missing, had been involved in a scheme to steal computer equipment and was slain by his co-conspirators, police said Tuesday. Known to teachers and schoolmates as a computer whiz and an Ivy League hopeful, Tay was bludgeoned to death on New Year's Eve at the Buena Park home of one of five teen-agers with whom he planned the thefts, police said.
NEWS
January 6, 1993 | ERIC YOUNG and MATT LAIT, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Stuart Anthony Tay, a 17-year-old honors student and Ivy League hopeful, was bludgeoned to death New Year's Eve by fellow students with whom he had been planning a computer equipment robbery, police said.
NEWS
January 21, 1995 | RENE LYNCH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Denouncing their crime as senseless and savage, an Orange County judge Friday sentenced two teen-age killers to 25 years to life in prison for the 1992 New Year's Eve killing of a young honors student, while a third defendant was committed to a detention facility for juveniles.