Two Sentenced to Life for Five Boston Slayings
A Boston judge sentenced two men to life in prison for one of the city’s bloodiest murders -- the shooting of five men in Boston’s Chinatown 15 years ago.
Siny Van Tran, known as “Toothless Wah,” and Nam The Tham were each found guilty of five counts of first-degree murder in the predawn massacre at an after-hours social club, which stunned Boston’s gang-infested Chinatown in 1991.
A jury also had found the two, who were arrested in China in 1998 after an international manhunt, guilty of armed assault with intent to murder for shooting a sixth man, Pak Wing Lee, who survived and testified against them.
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