True Crime with Kendall Rae
Baron Li Survives 9 Gunshots & Is Here To Tell His Story
Thu, 13 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: Who is Baron Lee and what is his story?
Und ich habe nie die Möglichkeit gehabt, tatsächlich zu einem Überlebenden auf dem Show zu sprechen. Heute werde ich von Baron Lee, der... I can't even put into words how much respect I have for this man, how much I like him. He is an incredible human in so many different ways.
The story of what he went through alone when it comes to the crime that he survived, which is, you're going to just be blown away by that alone. But his entire life and the things that he is still doing to this day, he is a remarkable human and I am truly honored to get to have him here.
truly baron thank you for taking the time to come on the show and tell your story and also spread a very multiple very important messages that i hope you guys will really take to heart and try to understand because the things that he is fighting for just are not being talked about enough i've had the opportunity to talk to him over the phone and just listening to the passion in his voice and how badly he wants to see change in the world was so inspiring and so right off the bat i'm going to ask you to
Take out your phone or if you're on the computer and go to his Instagram. If you are on Instagram, go to his social media. I will put his handles up on the screen. It will also be in the description box. His Instagram handle is Baron, B-A-R-O-N-B-L-I dot C-K-M-D.
Und ich hoffe wirklich, dass ihr euch in großen Nummern für ihn auswählen könnt und ihm das Follower geben, um seine Botschaft zu erhöhen und mehr Menschen zu erreichen. Und am Ende dieses Episodes werde ich euch erklären, warum es so wichtig ist, dass wir Baron unterstützen, weil was er tut, ist... Ich hoffe, es hat euch gefallen. Bis zum nächsten Mal.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Baron Lee face during his childhood?
Und despite all of that, he has remained so resilient and so kind and just a good human. And people like that just inspire me beyond words. So Baron was born in July of 1972 in Thailand. But when he was young, his family moved to Hawaii. And it was there that he was put into foster care after being abused by both of his parents.
My name is Baron Lee. I'm also known as the Asian 50 Cent. I was born in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. When I was a year old, my family decided to relocate to Hawaii, where my dad is originally from. At the age of three, the authorities were called out to my family's home after my neighbors had heard me crying for three days.
Chapter 3: How did Baron Lee's past impact his life today?
When the police arrived, they found me laying in an inch of water in my family's bathtub. I had burn wounds covering both of my arms and my legs. and I was barely alive. They rushed me to Hilo Hospital, where they were able to stabilize me and put me into surgery to do a procedure called skin graphing to care for my burn wounds. Fortunately, I made a recovery.
However, during their investigation, they had discovered that my parents had burned me with a clothing iron. So I was placed into my very first foster home. I remained in the foster care system until I was 17. During that time, I had 17 placements, 6 group homes and in and out of juvenile detention centers. The foster care system played a big impact in my life.
I went through a lot of challenges and adversities and also learned a lot of life lessons. My experiences in foster care helped mold me into the man I am today.
Now, when Baron was 22 years old, he was still living in Hawaii. But in the aftermath of the Gulf War, as tourism dipped in the state, he decided he wanted to try living somewhere new. So he took a leap and ended up buying a one-way ticket to Las Vegas, along with a one-week stay at the California Hotel.
And his friends sort of thought he was a little crazy at the time because he didn't really think through anything beyond that. But it all ended up working out. He first got there in 1994 and eventually he got a job working as a dealer at a casino. And as you can imagine, or maybe you know from personal experience, this is a very social job, which led to Baron meeting all types of people.
And personally, when I talked to him... I could just tell that this was a great position for him because he is a very social and talkative person who is filled with interesting things to say. And he's just, like I said earlier, very kind. So I think he thrived in that environment. And in 2001, he ended up meeting a woman named Didi. Now, Didi was originally from Thailand, just like him.
And she had just moved to Vegas after graduating college in Canada. And Baron was one of the first friends that she made when she came to the States. Und ja, ich habe Freunde gesagt, und es wird alles ein bisschen vollständig werden, aber ich wollte sie direkt aus dem Grunde erwähnen, weil sie eine sehr kritische Rolle spielt, um die Leben von Baron zu retten. In mehr Wegen als nur einer.
Aber um es klar zu machen, am 1. They were just friends. Didi ended up getting married and had two kids in Vegas, Sophia and Ethan. And in October of 2010, Baron got married himself. He ended up marrying a woman named Sharon Kelly, who he first started talking to online in late 2008.
They didn't officially meet until January of 2009, which is when she drove down from Washington to Vegas to meet him. But things went well enough that she ended up moving to Vegas, where the two of them ended up getting married on October 10th of 2010. But by January of 2011, they ended up leaving Vegas and going back to Washington, where Sharon was originally from.
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Chapter 4: What happened to Baron's son Eric and how did it change their lives?
And it was there that they had their son, Eric Dragon Lee. Now, he was born in April of 2014, and he's actually going to be a focal point of this episode today. Und seit wir Baron hier heute haben, dachte ich, es wäre besser für ihn, zu erklären, was zu Eric passiert ist. Aber zuerst gebe ich dir ein bisschen Backstory.
Also, im Grunde, bevor ihr Sohn geboren wurde, endete Sharon in einem Argument mit ihrem OBGYN über das Gewicht, das sie während der Geburt hatte. Und weil dieses war, hat sie entschieden, Eric nicht an einem großen Krankenhaus zu geben. Und stattdessen ging sie zu einem Midwife-Birthing-Center. Und als es zu seinem eigentlichen Geburtstag kam, ging es eigentlich sehr smooth.
Sie war nur 30 Minuten im Arbeit und er wurde perfekt gesund geboren. Jedoch, nur ein paar Tage später, als sie ihn vom Krankenhaus nach Hause genommen haben, haben sie bemerkt, dass er anfing, grün zu werden und Gehör zu entwickeln. Now this is something that is actually very common.
My daughter also had jaundice and was put under the lights at the hospital for a couple of days because she had a pretty severe case of it. So I know there are probably so many of you out there who understand jaundice and babies and sort of the process of dealing with it. But if you aren't familiar with it, it happens when there's an excessive buildup of bilirubin in the blood.
And there are many different ways of reducing the levels of bilirubin. And depending on how high they are, it can require different levels of treatment. And obviously, the higher the levels, the more dangerous it can be. Well, when they noticed that Eric was developing that yellow skin that you see in babies with jaundice, they called the birthing center to ask what to do.
Und sie wurden gesagt, dass sie alles, was sie tun mussten, war, Baby Eric in etwas Sonnenlicht zu legen, was ist etwas, was man oft gesagt wird, wenn wir das Krankenhaus verlassen, nachdem meine Tochter behandelt wurde und ihre Billy Rubin-Levels begonnen haben, haben sie uns gesagt, um sie etwas indirekte Sonnenlicht zu legen, weil es passiert.
Und natürlich waren sie erstmals Eltern, also haben sie nur vertraut, dass das der beste Hinweis war. Und in vielen Fällen ist es guter Hinweis. Aber am 8. Tag war er nicht besser. In Wahrheit war es tatsächlich schlimmer und er sah sich sehr ungeheuer aus. Also haben sie ihn zu ihrem Familienarzt genommen, der Eric angeschaut hat.
Und das erste, was er ihnen gesagt hat, war, dass sie ihn in den Unfallzimmer in Seattle Children's Hospital bringen mussten, sofort. And I want to have Baron himself explain what they learned and how that resulted in the disabilities that Eric still lives with to this day. When my daughter was younger and on the baby food train still, she was eating all kinds of veggies and loving it.
And I thought I had a miracle child. Turns out, as soon as they're a toddler, that is all over, at least for my daughter. And I know a lot of people have similar experiences. So that's why I opt for adding a children's vitamin into her diet.
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Chapter 5: How did Baron Lee lose custody of his son?
And he gets a lot of severe reflux, can't keep things down. Aktuell hat er eine medizinische Pumpe in seinem Stomach, um Baclofen zu vermitteln, die seine Töne von Dystonie vermittelt. Und er hat auch eine GJ-Tube, mit der er alles durchführt. Er nimmt nichts oral. Was bedeutet das für Eric? Er muss 24-Stunden-Bedienung haben. Es gibt nichts, was er selbst tun kann.
Er ist immer ein sehr glücklicher Junge. Even with all the adversities that he's faced, he always finds a way to stay positive and happy. While we also went and sued the birthing center for their negligence, However, because they were just a birthing center and not a major hospital, their insurance company had a maximum payout of a million dollars.
Our lawyers had instructed us that we're more than likely going to be able to get more than that, even if we went after the doctors and the nurses personally, because it would have been hard. It would cost more money to try and get that from them instead of suiting them. So we ended up settling out of court and the insurance company paid us the million dollars.
But with lower fees and everything, Eric was left with $650,000. So I put that into a special needs trust where that money would be able to grow tax-free. And I wouldn't have access to it or neither would his mom. However, there's a caveat. If the event that Eric was to pass away before the age of 30, the beneficiaries have a payout on whatever is left in the trust.
There is a small piece that my ex-wife didn't realize, though in the state of Washington, before beneficiaries are paid out, Social Security and Medicaid, they get paid back before the beneficiaries. So if he had passed away, we would have ended up adopting it either way. But I have no access to this money, even though I have custody with him. This money is strictly for his medical needs.
He has everything cared for until he's 18, so that money can grow without it being touched. So when we are no longer here, at least he has some funds to help manage his care. But as you can see, he always finds a way to smile and laugh. Say bye.
I'm really glad you guys got to see Eric there and I think it's very obvious how much Baron truly cares for his son, loves him more than anything in the world and would do anything to make sure that he gets the best care and is able to live the best life possible. And fun fact about Eric, I loved this, but he has seen Moana over 2,000 times, which to me...
Das ist einer der besten Disney-Movies jemals und ist so beeindruckend. Aber wie Sie deutlich sehen können, liebt Baron seinen Sohn so sehr. Und der Fakt, dass er Geld in eine Vertrauen, um ihn zu schützen, zeigt wirklich nur, dass sein Sohn's Wellbeing immer ein Priorität für Baron war, von Anfang an. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass das Geld nicht genug ist, um Eric für immer zu kümmern.
Und es ändert nicht den Fakt, was passiert ist und wie es komplett vorhanden war. Wegen ihrer grossen Verzweiflung braucht Eric um die Uhr Aufmerksamkeit, die er dankbar ist. Baron hat sich immer darauf eingelassen, ihn zu geben. Now Sharon, on the other hand, not so much.
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Chapter 6: Why did Baron Lee move to Las Vegas and how did it help him?
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I love their thermals. I love their jewelry. I love their bags and wallets. We've recently got a new duvet cover from Quince. And oh my gosh, this thing is beautiful, but also so comfy, so soft, washes really well, holds up. And I think that's the Quince quality too. I have never had a Quince piece that becomes destroyed in the wash, which I think is the true test of quality.
So give yourself the luxury that you deserve with Quince. Go to quince.com slash tckr for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. That's q-u-i-n-c-e dot com slash tckr to get free shipping and 365-day returns. Once again, quince.com slash tckr. Leaving Washington was a strategic move to be able to regroup and prepare to get his son back for good. And Vegas was where Baron decided to go.
And a big reason that he was able to gain the strength to keep fighting was because of one special person who I've already mentioned, Didi.
While going through all of this, no one believed anything that I was saying. Most people doubted the severity of the situation I was facing. However, Didi was there for me emotionally. She and I met back in 2001, shortly after she completed college in Canada. She moved down to Las Vegas to live with her mom. We became friends right away and over the years we kept in contact.
When Didi found out what I was going through, she suggested that I move back to Las Vegas, where she could help me get back on my feet. Three months after moving to Las Vegas, Didi and I had decided to move in together with her and her two children, Sophia and Ethan. Sophia was six at the time and Ethan was nine. And they grew to like me right away.
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Chapter 7: How did Baron Lee manage to regain custody of Eric?
Und sie mussten eigentlich Verhandlungen an der lokalen Polizistation machen, weil sich so hostile Dinge zwischen ihnen geworden sind. Und schau dir das an. Sharon wollte nicht, dass Eric physisch zu Baron übergebracht wird, also würde sie ihn an den Boden legen. Und das würde in der Parkplatte der Polizistation passieren.
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