Wah Mee massacre

The
Wah Mee massacre was a
mass shooting that occurred during the night of February 18–19, 1983, in the Wah Mee
gambling club at the
Louisa Hotel in
Seattle,
Washington, United States. Fourteen people were bound, robbed and shot by three gunmen, 22-year-old Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak|group=note}}, 20-year old Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng|group=note}} and 25-year-old Wai Chiu "Tony" Ng|group=note}} (no relation). Thirteen of the victims died, but 61-year-old Wai Yok Chin|group=note}}, a former
U.S. Navy sailor and
Pai Gow dealer at the Wah Mee, survived to testify against the three in the separate high-profile trials held between 1983 and 1985.
Mak and Benjamin Ng were both given
life imprisonment, after Mak's initial death sentence was overturned in 1988, while Tony Ng received a 30-year sentence, serving 28 years before he was released and deported to his native
Hong Kong in 2014. It remains the deadliest mass murder in the history of Washington State.
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