This looks straight out of a plot from a mediocre CBS drama, but nope, it’s absolutely true: earlier this week, male Asian porn star Herbert Wong (Porn name: Tom Dong) was killed in a “samurai-style sword attack” by a fellow porn-star Steven Hill (Porn name: Steven Driver) at a fetish porn studio in Southern California, as reported by the LA Weekly. The killer — who is still at-large — was known to be friends with the victim, where they appeared on this DVD cover box together. (No, we’re not going to link to the uncensored image; you guys read blogs, therefore you know how to use Google.) As for a motive:

Hill had been sleeping on a couch at the porn warehouse, and had been updating the adult based website as well as acting in a few movies. Police said Hill was asked to move out a few weeks earlier. “[Hill] wasn’t performing up to standards and a few weeks ago he was told he would have to leave,” said LAPD detective Joel Price. “They weren’t happy with his product and he had been given a date of [June 2] to leave… He knew today was the day he had to be gone.”

On one hand: this is sad. Someone lost their life over this. Two other people are in the hospital. And straight Asian male porn stars are like endangered Yangtze River dolphins: we don’t really know how many of them there are, but we only know of three or four, one of them is now dead and we’ve already blogged the last known occurrence.

On the flip side: Really, LAPD detective Joel Price? “Happy with his product?” Liiiike… his webmaster skills? His acting abilities? His penis? Did you, like, start high-fiving the rest of your buddies in the office after releasing out the statement? Because this Asian-American blogger is trying to take his job of reblogging shit seriously, and all I can really think of is, “He couldn’t perform up to standards folks; the key word here is UP! HEY-YO!”