The Wah Mee Club massacre in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District left thirteen people dead in the early morning hours of February 19, 1983. Among those killed was 68-year-old Dewey Mar, a projectionist at the Kokusai Theater and a man of Chinese descent. The perpetrators entered the exclusive gambling club intending to rob the patrons; fourteen people were bound and robbed before the crime escalated and multiple victims, including Mar, were shot in the head.

A single survivor, Wai Yok Chin, who had been shot and tied up, identified two of the attackers. Two suspects, Kwan Fai Willie Mak and Keung Kin Benjamin Ng, were arrested within hours. A third, Wai Chiu Tony Ng, fled to Canada and was captured after a nearly two-year manhunt. The case resulted in convictions for the attackers.