Monday, October 28, 2013

Wah Mee Massacre

Wah Mee Massacre

October 25, 2013 Tony Ng was to be paroled from prison for this role in the Wah Mee Massacre. The crime was committed on February 19, 1983 In Seattle's Chinatown in the Wah Mee gambling club. It was a multiple homicide on in which Chinese Americans Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng gunned down fourteen people. The killers were known to the group which included wealthy restaurant owners which helped them pass security, rob the patrons and then kill them so there would be no witnesses. Way W. Chin survived to identify the suspects, the others in the deadliest mass shooting in Washington state history.

On February 24, 1983, Benjamin Ng and Willie Mak were charged with thirteen counts of aggravated first-degree murder. Tony Ng became the third suspect, charged in absentia on March 30, 1983 with thirteen counts of aggravated first-degree murder. In August 1983 Benjamin Ng was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Two months later, Willie Mak was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Tony Ng was arrested October 4, 1984 in Canada, and was acquitted in April 1985 of murder, but convicted of thirteen counts of first-degree robbery and a single count of assault with a deadly weapon. In October 26, 2013 it was announced Tony Ng will be paroled from prison.


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The Wah Mee massacre was a multiple homicide on February 19, 1983, in which Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng gunned down fourteen people …


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