Takuma Ito was a 19-year-old Japanese student at Marymount College who was killed in Los Angeles on March 25, 1994. Ito and a friend, Go Matsuura, were approached in the parking lot of a Ralphs supermarket in San Pedro; the assailant, Raymond Oscar Butler, shot both young men in the head and stole their Honda Civic. Both victims were declared brain dead shortly after the attack and were removed from life support within days.

The killings drew significant attention in Japan, where gun violence is rare; the U.S. Ambassador to Japan at the time, Walter Mondale, issued a public apology expressing deep regret. Butler, who was 18 at the time of the incident, was arrested and charged, and was later convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, robbery, and carjacking and sentenced to death.

Does anyone have memories of Ito or Matsuura, or information about that night in San Pedro that could shed more light on what happened?