George Hang was 17 when he was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest at the Valley Hotel on Valley Boulevard in Rosemead, California. The coroner’s records list the shooting early in the morning around 5 a.m., but the incident was not reported until about 10 a.m., when his mother, Lai Yeung Hang, called authorities.

Lai Yeung Hang, 49 at the time, and her son had checked into the hotel the night before. Investigators recovered a handgun at the scene believed to be the weapon used. Lai Hang was arrested on suspicion of murder, charged with one count of murder and held in lieu of $2 million bail; she was scheduled for arraignment in August 2015.

Reports said Lai Hang had stage four cancer and believed there would be no one to care for her son, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia; those reports say that belief allegedly prompted her to end his life. The case was later dismissed after Lai Hang died of cancer on December 11, 2017. Is there anyone who knew George or Lai Hang and can share more about their lives or what happened that morning?