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
The shuttered entrance of the Wah Mee Club (double doors at left), December 2007
S King St frontage of Louisa Hotel (2009); Maynard Alley is on the right side of the photograph.
Facade of the Wah Mee Club (2010); the security office was housed behind the rows of glass blocks.
Louisa Hotel Building, Wah Mee club basement exposed on Maynard Alley during renovation (2015). This is a rare view and possibly the last image of the actual crime scene.
Pai gow is a Chinese gambling game, played with a set of 32 Chinese dominoes. It is played in major casinos in China; the United States; Canada; Australia; and New Zealand. Illegal gambling clubs offe
Wah Mee massacre
…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…
A set of 32 Chinese dominoes. The top two rows of tiles show the eleven matching pairs, in descending value from left to right. Below them are five non-matching pairs, worth less than the matching pairs, and also in descending value from left to right. The Gee Joon ("Supreme") tiles, lower right, are not matching but rank as the highest pair overall.