The FBI is offering a reward of up to $30,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man wanted in connection with one of the deadliest mass shootings in Boston history.
Authorities said Hung Tien Pham fled the United States shortly after the execution-style killings of five men inside a social club in Boston’s Chinatown on Jan. 12, 1991. A sixth victim survived the shooting and later identified three assailants, including Pham, authorities said.
The FBI said Pham is the only defendant in the case who has not been arrested or convicted.
He was last seen in Bangkok, Thailand, in the mid- to late-1990s, but investigators have not confirmed his whereabouts since then.
FBI Special Agent Tom Zukauskas said Pham was a major associate of Asian organized crime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with ties to the Ping On crime syndicate, which operated in Boston, Philadelphia, and Toronto. Investigators believe Pham may still have family connections in the San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto, and northern Vietnam.
The FBI recently released new photographs of Pham, including an age-progressed image showing what he may look like now at around 60 years old, and urged the public to review the images carefully.
Boston police say the massacre deeply affected the Chinatown community and the city as a whole.
“When you hear there’s been five people murdered in Chinatown, that can send the wrong signal to people that maybe this isn’t a safe area. And I think the community, the Chinatown community—which was very tight knit at the time and still is—they had to deal with that,” said Lieutenant Detective Dan Duff with the Boston Police Department’s Homicide Unit.
It’s unclear whether the killings were the result of a robbery or a dispute between rival groups. Pham is considered armed and extremely dangerous. Anyone with information about his location is urged to contact their local FBI office or submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov.
Officials said even small or seemingly insignificant details could help bring the case to a close and provide long-sought closure to the victims’ families.
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