A 39-year-old man faces life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury convicted him Tuesday in the murders of two men stabbed at a Chinatown social club.
Vinh Dao has been convicted of stabbing two men to death on Jan. 26, 2017, at the Hop Sing Tong Benevolent Assn. in L.A.'s Chinatown.
Dao started arguing with Kim Kong Yun, 64, before stabbing him to death, according to court testimony. He then stabbed Joe Hoe “Tony” Young, also 64, when Young tried to help Yun.after stabbing two people A detective with the Los Angeles Police Department once described Dao’s criminal history to The Times as"fairly violent.”
, convinced that he was a leader of the notorious Wah Ching gang, implicated in an armed robbery and at least two murders.
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