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LA riots' toll of unsolved murders 20 years on

For five days in 1992, the nation watched as entire neighbourhoods in Los Angeles descended into violent chaos, writes Jim Crogan.

This came after four cops were acquitted in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, but during an uprising supposedly in the name of justice, some people got away with murder.

During the five "Days of Outrage," a disbelieving nation watched on television as looters broke store windows and emptied shelves, Korean grocers sat atop their stores with assault rifles and fires were set throughout South Central and other parts of the city. Beatings, including the brutal one administered to truck driver Reginald Denny, were captured on video by news crews.

“Can’t we all just get along?” pleaded King as the cityinclude a 15-year-old boy shot as he stood on a corner, a Good Samaritan who tried to douse flames set by a crowd of angry looters, a hard-working immigrant who insisted on making grocery deliveries even as his neighbourhood burned, a suburban man shot when he came to check on his store and John Doe No. 80, whose identity may never be known.

Here are their stories:

- Arturo Carlos Miranda, 23, was killed on April 29, 1992, at the intersection of 120th St. and Central Ave. Miranda, a Mexican-American, his nephew Valentin Moreno and another friend were driving back from a South Central park when an unidentified blue car pulled up next to theirs and someone fired a shot at the trio. Miranda was struck in the chest. Inexplicably,