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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 [ note 1 ] , 20-year old Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng [ note 2 ] and ...
The Louisa Hotel is a building in Chinatown-International District, Seattle. In 1983 it was the scene of the Wah Mee massacre , the deadliest mass murder in Washington state history. Description and history
Squire ended martial law and restored local civil order on February 23. Most troops were recalled, but two companies of troops were left in Seattle for another 4 months after the riot. [2] John McGraw, Washington sheriff during the anti-Chinese riot of Seattle in 1886; later a lawyer, second governor of Washington State, and a businessman.
For nearly a half-century, Donnie Chin was widely considered the unofficial security guard and medic of Seattle's Chinatown-International District. Five years after Chin was killed in a shootout ...
The Wah Mee massacre, in which 13 people were killed during a robbery, took place in Seattle's Chinatown–International District in 1983. In 1997 Gary Locke was elected governor of the state of Washington, becoming the first, and as of 2014 [update] the only, Chinese American to serve as governor of a state; in 2009 he became the first Chinese ...
Chinatown massacre can refer to: Chinese massacre of 1871 ... Wah Mee massacre (Seattle, 1983) Boston Chinatown massacre (Boston, 1991) This page was last edited ...
A recent major homeless shelter expansion in three Seattle neighborhoods has attracted backlash from Chinatown-International District community members who feel “left in the dark” about the ...
Christina Yuna Lee was followed into her Chinatown building by a vagrant and stabbed to death. Linkedin Daniel Enriquez was shot and killed by a deranged gunman on the Q train when he was going to ...