FBI announces reward for info in 30-year-old Boston murder case Share Updated: 4:37 PM EST Jan 12, 2021
FBI announces reward for info in 30-year-old Boston murder case Share Updated: 4:37 PM EST Jan 12, 2021
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Show Transcript FERRING $3 NO REWINDER A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO FIND ONE OF THE GUNMAN. TODAY WE ARE RENEWING OUR CALL. SERA: A NEW PUSH TO FIND THI WANTED MAN, HUNG TIEN PHAM. A LONG SOUGHT AFTER SUSPECT FOR WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS A MASSACRE IN CHINATOWN 30 YEARS AGO TODAY. FIVE MEN PLAYING CARDS IN A BASEMENT APT WERE SHOT AND KILLED EXECUTION STYLE. THEN MAYOR RAY FLYNN DESCRIBED THE SCENE BACK IN 1991. MAYOR FLYNN: I HAVEN T SEEN ANYTHING LIKE CERTAINLY SINCE I VE BEEN MAYOR, ALMOST LIKE A WAR SCENE . SERA: AUTHORITIES SAY PHAM, WHO WOULD BE 60 YEARS OLD TODAY, IS ONE OF THREE GUNMAN BEHIND THE MURDERS THE OTHER TWO SHOOTERS ARE SERVING LIFE SENTENCES. PHAM IS THE ONLY DEF IN THIS CASE WHO HAS NOT BEEN ARRESTED AND CONVICT
Vietnamese national Hung Tien Pham is wanted by the FBI for the January 12, 1990, execution-style killings of five men playing cards in a gambling den, known as the Boston Chinatown massacre.
Hung Tien Pham in 1989 Courtesy of the FBI
Exactly 30 years ago, Hung Tien Pham walked into an illegal gambling den located on Tyler Street in Boston.
Called a “rising star” among Asian organized crime, according to U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, Pham, along with two others, allegedly shot six men “execution style” in the head as they were playing cards, the FBI said. Five of the men died, but the one who survived identified the three alleged shooters – Pham, Nam The Tham, and Siny Van Tran.
Since Jan. 12, 1991, Tham and Tran were found and arrested in China. They were brought back to the United States in 2001, and in 2005, they were convicted of murder in Suffolk County Superior Court. They’re currently serving five consecutive life sentences for their crimes, the FBI said.