The Wah Mee massacre in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District on the night of February 19, 1983, ended with thirteen people dead and one survivor. One of those killed was an Asian man named Chong L. Chinn. The killings took place in the Wah Mee gambling club, a private basement room in the Louisa Hotel where high-stakes games were held.

Three men entered the club intending to rob the patrons. They bound and robbed the fourteen people who were present and then shot each victim in the head; thirteen were killed. Wai Yok Chin survived, untied himself and became the lone eyewitness. Within hours police arrested Keung Kin Benjamin Ng and Kwan Fai Willie Mak; the third suspect, Wai Chiu Tony Ng, fled to Canada and was later returned to the U.S. for prosecution. The motive was robbery.

Chinn or remember the Wah Mee club in the early 1980s?