Peter Wong was a 20-year-old Asian man living in New York City when he was fatally shot at Winnie’s Bar on Bayard Street on the night of February 8, 1990. The attack occurred inside the dim, smoky bar; shots were fired at close range and Peter and another young man, 19-year-old Dak Leong, were killed. Three other people were wounded.

The killings took place amid a violent feud between Chinatown gangs, primarily the Ghost Shadows and the Vietnamese crew known as Born to Kill, led by David Thai. Accounts identify a gunman, named Qui Tran, as entering the bar with a mission to kill two men linked to the Ghost Shadows. The double slaying intensified tensions in Chinatown and preceded retaliatory violence and a broader federal crackdown on Born to Kill.