Tragedy latest in brutal Boston massacres

Tragedy latest in brutal Boston massacres

By Laurel J. Sweet | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage

Photo by Courtney Sacco

Yesterday’s massacre in Mattapan - with four dead, including a child, and one on life support - stands as one of the bloodiest days in the city’s recent history.
In 1991, five men were executed in a Chinatown gambling den. Incredibly, a sixth man shot in the head that night cheated death and helped put fugitive killers Siny “Toothless Wah” Tran and Nam The Tham away for life in 2005.
Five was also the body count in 1978, when a shotgun holdup of the former Blackfriars Pub turned deadly. The bloodbath is unsolved.
In other dark moments in Hub history:

• Bryan “Blinky” Dyer, a disgruntled ex-employee of Sammy White’s Bowladrome in Brighton, gunned down four men and beat them with bowling pins in 1980.
• Reputed father and son mobsters Anthony and Damien Clemente slaughtered four men in 1995 at the 99 Restaurant & Pub in Charlestown.
• Calvin Carnes Jr. shot to death three members of a prophetically named rap group Graveside and their friend in a home-based Dorchester recording studio in 2005.
• Shacora Gaines, Chantal Palmer and Anthony Peoples were shot to death in a car on Mount Ida Road in Dorchester last year. Their accused killer is awaiting extradition from Trinidad.

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