HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A man who escaped the civil war of his homeland to settle in Houston was severely beaten and left for dead at an Alief-area gas station.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office says Ye Myint Aung, 39, died on May 23 after being punched more than 20 times inside a gas station.

Homicide detectives began their investigation after the Harris County Coroner's Office notified officials of a delayed death case at their office.

That Friday at about 9:30 p.m., Lakisha Wilks went to the Synco Station on 13102 Bissonnet Street looking to buy some food.

That's when he saw Aung, a friend who had done some odd jobs for her, lying on the ground behind the gas station, with some regular customers looking on.

"I said, 'Something is definitely wrong,'" she recalled. "And they

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