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(Saturday, February 19, 1983, 12:30 a.m. PST; during the Wah Mee Massacre) — Twelve men and a woman were shot dead early this morning at the Wah Mee Club, a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.

Kwan Fai “Willie” Mak, Wai Chiu “Tony” Ng, and Keung Kin “Benjamin” Ng (no relation) bound, robbed, and shot fourteen people aged between their mid-forties and early sixties.

Thirteen of their victims died, but Wai Chin, a dealer at the Wah Mee, survived to testify against the three in the separate high-profile trials held in 1983 and 1985.

“We believe that it is robbery,” Police Maj. Dale Douglass said at the time, adding “I don’t believe it was nickel and dime.”

It is the deadliest mass murder in Washington state history.

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“This is a unique and horrible incident,” Police Chief Patrick Fitzsimons said of the carnage. “I have seen nothing like it before. A case like this is shocking.”

“Some were shot once, some twice,” Dr. Harry Bonnell, assistant medical examiner for King County, said of the victims, all of whom were shot in the head.

According to the police, 32 shots were fired in total; 26 of those were fired from the same .22 caliber gun.

Mak initially received the death penalty, but his sentence was later reduced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Benjamin Ng also received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Tony Ng was found guilty of robbery and assault — but not murder — and was paroled in 2014. He agreed to deportation and on his release was immediately transported to Hong Kong.