 Five gas stations was just too much to manage. Carol's mom eventually sold four of them, but kept the one in Compton, and that became the family business. The Compton station is where Mrs. Park was the afternoon of April 29th when the verdicts came down and the four members of the LAPD who beat Rodney King were found not guilty. While Carol and her brothers were at home, panic-watching the news, Mrs. Park was watching out the window, afraid to leave the booth. It was a story that Carol had never heard before.