Back story behind Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the south vietnamese police chief:
There are several accounts where the numbers change, but they all essentially say that viet cong had spent the previous day killing south vietnamese police and/or their families, and that Nguyen Ngoc Loan himself had lost family members, only to find them in a mass grave of roughly (this is the point of contention) 35 bodies, including some of his direct subbordinates.
The man being shot was apparently involved/perpetrated the plot, though his identity remains a mystery.
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