2000 AP U.S. Attorney Donald Stern, right, and John Gartland, special agent in charge of the Boston DEA, announce China is holding two suspects in a 1991 mass killing. Two men wanted for the execution-style killing of five men in a Chinatown gambling den are being detained in China after nine years on the run from international authorities.
Authorities believe the two arrested are Vietnamese nationals.
A third suspect, Hung Tien Pham, is still at large. The suspects' return to the country for arraignment is uncertain because the United States does not have an extradition treaty with China. But U.S. Attorney Donald Stern said the Chinese government has been helpful so far, and he expected that to continue. The suspects allegedly made five men lie on their backs, some with hands behind their heads, and shot each of them twice in the head from close range. A sixth victim survived the attack.