 Ebens was arrested for the initial assault.After Vincent Chin's death, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz were charged with second-degree murder.In June 2012 – just before the 30th anniversary of the killing – and in the wake of a prominent retrospective article in the "New York Times", Ebens expressed his contrition in a phone interview from his home in Nevada with writer Emil Guillermo, saying killing Chin was "the only wrong thing I ever done in my life."