13 die in Chinatown killings
SEATTLE (AP) — While pathologists tried
to piece together the final terror-filled moments
of 13 people killed at a private gambling club in
the city’s Chinatown, police searched Sunday
for a third person wanted in the bloody
massacre.
Two men were in custody Sunday, and
records showed one of them had been arrested
but cleared two years ago in another multiple
shooting.
The club patrons, many of them older
businessmen, had been bound hand and foot
and "hog-tied” with nylon cord.
The sole survivor of the attack, Wai Chin,
61, reportedly a dealer at the Wah Mee club,
was recovering.
He was in serious but stable condition
after an operation for a gunshot wound to the
neck, said nursing supervisor Chris Martin at
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The
hospital ward was under heavy police guard.
Mayor Charles Royer and Police Chief
Patrick Fitzsimons called a meeting late Sun
day with leaders of the city’s Chinese
community.
After the shootings, Royer was accused of
a tolerance policy toward illegal gambling at
private clubs in Chinatown. By some accounts,
this could have triggered the massacre by
allowing higher-stakes gambling.
It was widely-known in Chinatown that the
Wah Mee Club had stepped up its gambling
stakes recently, residents of the area said. But
Royer said Sunday he was unaware of any
increase.
Royer said gambling in the city’s close
knit International District is “tightly controlled
(by participants) and it’s difficult to do law en
forcement” but he insisted anti-gambling laws
are enforced whenever possible.
After a recent raid on a club, Royer said,
central Seattle residents were upset and asked
him “how much priority are you putting on
gambling? And my response was we are deter
mining when the law is broken to enforce the
law, and that policy has not changed at all.”
The autopsy on the first of the 13 victims
showed the cause of death to be multiple gun
shot wounds to the head, including one shot
close enough to leave gunpowder burns.
Bill Haglund, spokesman for the King
County Medical Examiner, said the autopsy
results on the remaining 12 victims, including a
woman, would not be released until all were
complete, probably Monday.
The office was handling the unusual load
of autopsies "with our own regular staff, just
working a little faster, that’s all,” Haglund said.
Meanwhile, police were tight-lipped about
their search for the third man they say helped in
the crime.
Chin's ability to escape his bindings and
stagger outside early Saturday morning was
what police termed the “lucky break" that led
to the arrests hours later of Benjamin Ng, 20,
and Kwan “Willie” Mak, 22. Both were born in
Hong Kong and lived in south Seattle, jail
records showed.
Swami speaker causes Rotary ruckus
ALBANY — The planned
appearance of a follower of
the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
at a Rotary Club meeting here
is causing a commotion and
has set off the mid-valley
rumor mill.
Swami Deva Wadud, city
planner for the group’s central
Oregon commune, is the
scheduled speaker for the
Rotary’s meeting Tuesday.
“I've had a lot of people call
me,” said Jimmie Taylor, the
club’s program chairman.
“The rumors are unbeliev
able.’’
Taylor said he invited the
speaker because his job is to
“bring in interesting programs
that educate us and open our
minds.”
He said among the rumors
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But Taylor said he did not
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He said he regarded the
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Ma Prem Sunshine, a
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schools and colleges around
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The speaker also serves as
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Rajneesh settlement, Raj
neeshpuram, an incorporated
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Rancho Rajneesh near
Antelope in Wasco County.
About 800 members live at the
commune, about 650 of them
inside the city.
Rajneesh is among those
who live there. The 51-year
old’s residency status in the
United States is being con
sidered by the Immigration
and Naturalization Service,
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March 10 to respond to some
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