Around 9:30 p.m., two members of the Joe Boys, Peter Cheung, and Dana Yu were asked to steal a four-door car, which would facilitate entry and exit for a quick getaway they returned shortly afterward with a blue Dodge Dart and parked it in the home's driveway. Later that evening, the gang returned to Pacifica. Golden Dragon Restaurant on the north side of Washington (facing west from Grant), circa October 2000. By this time, the group was plotting the shooting consisted of Tom Yu, his brothers (Chester and Dana), Melvin Yu (no relation), Peter Ng, Peter Cheung, Curtis Tam, Kam Lee, and Don Wong. on Saturday morning, and after a brief, private conversation, ordered the weapons to be put back into the closet. That Friday night (September 2), members of the Joe Boys gathered in Pacifica, retrieved the weapons, and put them on display. Yu gave Jon the phone number of the Pacifica home and asked him to call on the following Saturday (September 3). The planned raid would also financially damage Jack Lee, a Hop Sing elder who co-owned the restaurant. The conspirators decided to target the Golden Dragon because it was a favorite hangout of both the Wah Ching and Hop Sing Tong. On August 29, 1977, Yu met with Carlos Jon, a member of another gang Yu asked Jon to keep track of Wah Ching and allied Hop Sing Tong gang members over the upcoming Labor Day weekend, showing special interest in where they gathered late at night. Preparations began in early 1977 when Joe Boys members began acquiring the weapons that would be used in the massacre during the summer of 1977, Tom Yu, a leader of the Joe Boys, convinced a longtime friend who owned a home in Pacifica to store the weapons, wrapped in cloth, in the front closet of that home. The raid was planned in a Daly City apartment. Including those victims in the Golden Dragon, 44 people had been murdered in gang violence in San Francisco Chinatown by 1977 Inspector John McKenna of the San Francisco Police counted 55 dead between 19. Louie's death was later memorialized in a poem by Michael McClure, who came upon the victim shortly after the shooting. Huey's murder, in turn, was seen as a reprisal for the earlier death of Kin Chuen Louie, a 20-year-old member of the Wah Ching who had been shot a dozen times on May 31 while attempting to escape in his car. That shootout resulted in the death of 16-year-old Felix Huey (Chinese: 許非力 sometimes romanized as Huie) and the wounding of Melvin Yu, both members of the Joe Boys. 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. The two gangs controlled different parts of San Francisco, with the Wah Ching in Chinatown and the Joe Boys in the Richmond and Sunset districts, and had been rivals since the Joe Boys splintered off from the Wah Ching in the late 1960s. The incident was motivated by a longstanding feud between two rival Chinatown gangs, the Joe Boys (Chung Ching Yee) and Wah Ching, traced back to 1969, when the first victim was killed. The restaurant itself closed in 2006.Ĭentral Ping Yuen (2018), at the corner of Stockton and Pacific Motivation The massacre led to the establishment of the San Francisco Police Department's Asian Gang Task Force, credited with ending gang-related violence in Chinatown by 1983. Seven perpetrators were later convicted and sentenced in connection with the murders. The attack left five people dead and 11 others injured, none of whom were gang members. The five perpetrators, members of the Joe Boys, a Chinese youth gang, were attempting to kill leaders of the Wah Ching, a rival Chinatown gang. The Golden Dragon massacre was a gang-related shooting attack that took place on September 4, 1977, inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. Rivalry between Joe Boys and Wah Ching gangs
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