Wah Mee massacre
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The shuttered entrance of the Wah Mee Club (double doors at left), December 2007 | |
| Location | 665 South King Street Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 47°35′53″N 122°19′27″W / 47.59806°N 122.32417°W |
| Date | February 19, 1983 12:30 a.m. (PST) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, armed robbery, gang attack |
| Weapons | Three .22 caliber handguns |
| Deaths | 13 |
| Injured | 1 |
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| Motive | Robbery |
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| Traditional Chinese | 華美大屠殺 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 华美大屠杀 | ||||||||||
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The Wah Mee massacre was a mass shooting that occurred during the night of February 18–19, 1983, in the Wah Mee gambling club at the Louisa Hotel in Seattle, Washington, United States. Fourteen people were bound, robbed and shot by three gunmen, 22-year-old Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, 20-year old Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng and 25-year-old Wai Chiu "Tony" Ng (no relation). Thirteen of the victims died, but 61-year-old Wai Yok Chin, a former U.S. Navy sailor and Pai Gow dealer at the Wah Mee, survived to testify against the three in the separate high-profile trials held between 1983 and 1985.
Mak and Benjamin Ng were both given life imprisonment, after Mak's initial death sentence was overturned in 1988, while Tony Ng received a 30-year sentence, serving 28 years before he was released and deported to his native Hong Kong in 2014. It remains the deadliest mass murder in the history of Washington State.