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Born to Kill, also known as BTK or Canal Boys, was a New York City -based street gang composed of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants. They were active in the 1980s in New York City's Chinatown. [1] The early 1990s proved to be detrimental to the Vietnamese collective following the arrest and prosecution of most of their New York-based ...
In the late 1980's, a new gang threw asian immigrant communities across America into chaotic spurts of violence. They were brutal, they were vicious, and the...
It was a sweltering summer day in 1990 and more than 100 Asian gang members and their families were gathered at the Rosedale Memorial Park Cemetery in Linden, N.J to bury 21-year-old Vinh Vu, the No. 2 leader of the violent Born to Kill Gang (BTK). Suddenly, three men approached wearing long coats covering the automatic weapons they were carrying.
This was the case for David Thai, who eventually became the founding member of Born to Kill, a Vietnamese gang in New York City. Born in South Vietnam in the midst of the Vietnam War, Thai was exposed to illegal activities that involved the trafficking of drugs between Vietnamese and American forces. Upon the capture of his father into re ...
And while Born to Kill was believed to have died out after that case, Trieu’s old gang ties led to his involvement in the Huynh brothers’ deaths. Speaking in court Wednesday through a Vietnamese interpreter — and under frequent coaching from his lawyers — Trieu admitted he had reached out to Le, his old BTK associate, to collect on a ...
One of the gang members who joined the gang for brotherhood became increasingly disenchanted with the violence and eventually began to cooperate with Federal law enforcement officers. The account of the "Born to Kill" Vietnamese gang examines the changing face of organized crime and the multicultural nature of organized crime in the United States.
