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However, Wah Ching was able to push these gangs out of Los Angeles Chinatown and took over their illegal establishments. Wah Ching became the dominant gang in Chinatown, Los Angeles throughout most of the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1991, Danny "Ah Pai" Wong, the leader of Wah Ching, was shot and killed by Wo Hop To (WHT) hitmen from Seattle ...
[3]: 820 The Yau Lai (or Yo Le) split from the Wah Ching in 1969, founded by members unhappy with the gang's merger into the Hop Sing. [4] The Chung Ching Yee (later, the Joe Fong Boys or just Joe Boys) were formed by Joe Fong as a splinter group of the Yau Lai in 1971, [5] and claimed to be independent of any existing Chinatown organizations. [4]
Wah Ching 華青 [9] Wah Kee 華記; Taiwan Gangs 台灣幫派. Four Seas Gang 四海幫 [10] Bamboo Union 竹聯幫 [10] Tien Tao Meng (Heavenly Way Alliance) 天道盟 [10] Sung Lien Gang (Pine Union) 松聯幫 [10] Niu Pu Gang 牛埔幫; Chi Hsien Gang (Seven Yin Gang) 七賢幫; Ta hu Gang (Big Lake Gang) 大湖幫; Hsi Pei Gang (Northwest ...
Lea Mek (1974/1975 – December 3, 1993) was a Cambodian refugee living in the United States who was a member of the Asian Boyz street gang. On December 3, 1993, Mek was murdered in a gang shooting by the Wah Ching gang, at a pool hall in El Monte, California. The murder was caught on camera by four surveillance cameras installed within the ...
The shooting at the Golden Dragon was an attempted assassination of Wah Ching leaders and was a direct retaliation for the shootout with the Wah Ching in Chinatown's Ping Yuen (Peace Garden) housing project (Chinese: 平園住宅房屋大廈) on July 4, 1977, which was sparked by a dispute over fireworks sales. [3]
As the neighborhood gentrifies and Chinese residents grow older and fewer, the clubs remain a vital social glue.
The Jackson Boys gang was the successor to the Wo Hop To Triad which ruled the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1980s and early 1990s. [1] The Jackson Street Boys was founded by three brothers, Bobby Tsan, Johnny Tsan and Tommy Tsan, who were former Wah Ching members who had defected to the Wo Hop To after the Wo Hop To forced the Wah Ching out of San Francisco. [2]
This led to many of the children of new immigrants dropping out and joining gangs that engaged in violence in Chinatown. In 1968, during a human rights commission hearing held in San Francisco, the Wah Ching gang asked for a community clubhouse and a two-year program to help them gain vocational skills and earn high school diplomas.