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Feb 18, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: February 18, 1983 The Wah Mee Massacre Occurred in Seattle.

On this day, February 18, 1983, the Wah Mee Massacre took place in Seattle, Washington, when three armed men carried out the largest robbery-motivated mass murder in U.S. history. The brutal attack occurred at the Wah Mee Club, an illegal gambling den in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, where 13 people were killed and one was left critically injured.

The perpetrators—Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng—entered the club under the pretense of a robbery, tied...

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