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5 YEARS LATER: A Bath Township cold case murder conviction

Posted at 9:20 PM, Feb 22, 2024
and last updated 2024-02-22 21:20:03-05

LANSING, Mich. — Thursday, a Clinton County jury found Thomas Olson, 35, of Grand Blanc, guilty in the 2018 shooting death of 68-year-old Chong Moua Yang.

According to the Attorney General's Office, Chong Yang went missing on November 16th, 2018 when we went hunting in the Rose Lake State Park in Bath Township and never returned home.

Yang was later found by family members with a gunshot wound to the head.

Nessel said Olson killed Yang while hunting, then stole the victim's shotgun, knife, headlamp, and shotgun.

Olson was convicted of one count of second-degree murder and one count of Felony Firearm.

He will be sentenced on April 8th, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.

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