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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]
Led by the charismatic and cult-leader like David Thai, the gang would wreak havoc across the country, dropping bodies and terrorizing people at a level previously unseen in Chinatown. Underworld...
Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families by violence and cast adrift in a strange land.
Being unable to support his family working jobs that paid minimal, he turned to organized crime. While he was originally a part of the Flying Dragons Chinese-American gang, the discrimination he faced caused him and other Vietnamese-American gang members to leave and form the Born to Kill gang.
Throughout the late 1980's and early 1990's, a gang of young Vietnamese refugees committed many violent acts as part of the Asian underworld in the United States, and this book traces the rise of the "Born to Kill" Vietnamese gang phenomenon.
Prosecutors have described both Le and Trieu as former ranking members of a gang of Vietnamese immigrants named Born to Kill, after a slogan painted on the helmets of some U.S. soldiers...
