$30K Reward On 35th Anniversary Of Boston's Chinatown Massacre

BOSTON, MA — Twenty days after he was involved in gunning down six men, killing five, in an illegal Boston gambling den in January 1991, Hung Tien Pham traveled to New York City and boarded a flight to Hong Kong.

Pham, now 65, has managed to elude the law over the ensuing 35 years, despite a $30,000 reward offered by the FBI for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

Pham faces five counts of murder, one count of armed assault with intent to murder, one count of conspiracy and one count of carrying a firearm without a license in connection with the Boston Chinatown Massacre of Jan. 12, 1991.

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A federal warrant for Pham's arrest charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution was issued two weeks after he took off for Hong Kong.

The six men were shot execution-style in the basement of a building on Tyler Street where they had been playing cards.

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Boston police Lt. Dan Duff said in a 2021 video posted by the FBI that the motive for the killings remains a mystery.

"We’re not sure it was actually a robbery or whether it was just bad blood between rival groups," Duff said. "But they did go in there with a plan, and they did go in there shooting, and five of the six people that were there ended up dying."

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Two other men involved in the killings, Siny Van Tran and Nam The Tham, also fled the country but were arrested in China and convicted of five counts of first-degree murder. Tran and Thamwere sentenced to five consecutive life terms in prison.

Pham, a known associate of the Ping On crime syndicate, is about 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-4 and weighs about about 115 to 135 pounds.

Pham worked as a cook, waiter, bicycle repairman and floor sander, according to the FBI, and speaks Vietnamese, Chinese and English.

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In addition to Hong Kong, Pham is known to have traveled to Canada, China, Vietnam and Thailand, the FBI has reported, and also has ties to Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Toronto and the San Francisco Bay Area.

"His last known location was Bangkok, Thailand, in the mid-to-late 1990s," the FBI said. "Pham was known to be a big spender who liked flashy cars and cognac."

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