Crime Who Was Konerak Sinthasomphone, the Jeffrey Dahmer Victim Who Police Returned to the Killer's Home? Before Konerak Sinthasomphone was found dismembered in Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment, his older brother was victimized by the infamous murderer By Tristan Balagtas Tristan Balagtas Digital News Writer, PEOPLE People Editorial Guidelines Published on October 13, 2022 05:14PM EDT Konerak Sinthasomphone. Photo: IMDB The youngest known victim of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was a teenage boy who immigrated to the United States from Laos a decade before his violent death. Konerak Sinthasomphone, who was 14 years old at the time of his murder, fled with his parents and seven siblings from Laos to Milwaukee, Wisc., in 1979, in search of better opportunities, according to a 1991 report by The New York Times. But before Konerak was found dismembered in Dahmer's apartment, his older brother Somsack, was the first of the Sinthasomphone siblings to be victimized by the infamous murderer, whose crimes are chronicled in the Netflix docuseries, Monster. 'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' : How the Serial Killer Was Caught According to The Times, Dahmer was convicted of sexually assaulting Somsack in 1989, after he convinced the then-13-year-old boy to follow him to his apartment to take part in a nude photoshoot in exchange for money. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLE's free True Crime newsletter for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. Jeffrey Dahmer. EUGENE GARCIA/AFP via Getty Somsack managed to escape Dahmer that night. Dahmer was initially sentenced to eight years in prison for the assault, but after writing a judge a letter of regret, he was granted early release one year into his prison sentence, per The Times. At the time of Konerak's murder, Dahmer was still on probation for Somsack's assault. Mother of Dahmer Victim Speaks Out About Netflix Drama 'Monster' : 'It Didn't Happen Like That' On May 27, 1991, Dahmer's neighbor Glenda Cleveland, her daughter Sandra Smith, and her niece, Nicole Childress alerted authorities of a disoriented, bleeding boy, later identified as Konerak, roaming the streets near their home, PEOPLE previously reported. According to court documents from a suit the Sinthasomphone familiy filed against the city of Milwaukee and the two responding police officers, Konerak "was seen wandering dazed and naked on the corner of 25th and State in Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Police officers responded. Dahmer arrived shortly after the officers and convinced them that Konerak was his drunk lover. Neighbor Called Police Multiple Times Warning Them About Jeffrey Dahmer. They Didn't Listen to Her "Despite the vigorous protestations of several African-Americans on the scene, the officers and Dahmer led Sinthasomphone back to Dahmer's apartment, where the body of one of Dahmer's victims lay unnoticed in an adjoining room. Concluding that Dahmer and Sinthasomphone were adult homosexual lovers, the officers ultimately left Sinthasomphone with Dahmer," the suit states. "Thirty minutes later, he became Dahmer's thirteenth victim," the suit states. Dahmer was convicted of the murder, rape and dismemberment of at least 17 men and boys in Milwaukee from 1978 to 1991.