Police Officer Arthur Ken Soo Hoo, Los Angeles Police Department, California

Police Officer Arthur Ken Soo Hoo

Los Angeles Police Department, California

End of Watch Saturday, October 29, 1983

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Arthur Ken Soo Hoo

Police Officer Arthur Soo Hoo and Police Officer William Wong were killed when their police car was struck by a vehicle driven at approximately 85 mph.

The occupants in the vehicle were fleeing from a drug deal gone bad. The vehicle ran a red light at the intersection of North Broadway and College Streets and struck the patrol car the officers were in.

Both suspects fled to Mexico where they were arrested by Mexican authorities but released because of the violent drug cartel to which they belonged. In 2003 the vehicle's passenger was arrested in Vacaville, California, and subsequently convicted of manslaughter. The driver remains at large and is believed to still be in Mexico.

Officer Soo Hoo served with the Los Angeles Police Department for seven years and is survived by his wife, and son.

Bio

Age 33
Tour 7 years
Badge 21730

Incident Details

Cause Vehicular assault
Weapon Automobile
Offender At large

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I knew Art at Belmont High, we ran track together in 1968. He was always a happy, smiling guy. I later became an actor and went out for an audition for America's Most Wanted. The part was for Art Soo Hoo. I walked in to the audition room and told them in the first minute. "I knew Art in high school." We talked a little more, then the audition began. I played it straight. I suppose I did alright because my agent told me that afternoon that I had landed the part.

In prep I got in touch with another old friend, Frankie Yan, who was on the force and who grew up with Art in Chinatown. We stood outside old Parker Center and talked and reminisced about the old days, and of our friend. "Art was always smiling," Frankie told me. We shot the episode in Chinatown, but at a different intersection than the real one. When it aired it looked good, and I hope it did something to track the killers down.

Darrell Kunitomi
Los Angeles

Darrell Kunitomi
friend of Art's

August 25, 2024