On the cold night of February 19, 1983, the Wah Mee gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown International District was the scene of a mass robbery that became one of the city’s most notorious murders. Among the thirteen people killed that night was Lung Wing Chin, identified in records as a 60-year-old fisherman and cook of Chinese descent. He was one of the patrons and staff who were bound and shot when armed intruders carried out a planned robbery.

Three young men who were known to regulars were let in just before midnight: Kwan Fai Willie Mak, Benjamin Ng, and Wai Chiu Tony Ng. To eliminate witnesses they systematically bound and shot people inside the club; one survivor, Wai Yok Chin, who had been shot, managed to free himself and alert police and later helped identify the assailants. Within hours two suspects were in custody and the third fled to Canada.

If anyone knew Lung Wing Chin, his work as a fisherman and cook, or his connections to the Wah Mee club, please share what is known.