Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz, assaulted Chin following a brawl at a Highland Park, Michigan, strip club, where Chin had been celebrating his bachelor party. After being ejected from the club, Ebens and Nitz tracked Chin to a nearby McDonald’s, where Nitz held him down as Ebens repeatedly struck him with a baseball bat, fatally cracking his skull. Mistakenly believing he was Japanese, Ebens and Nitz targeted Chin with anti-Asian slurs before ultimately beating him to death. Chin was