Born to Kill (gang)

Born to Kill, also abbreviated as BTK, was the name of a notorious New York City-based street gang composed of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants. Their rise to power was in the 1980s when they ran New York City's Chinatown with an iron fist and quickly rose to become the most notorious Asian gang the country of the United States has ever witnessed. The early 1990s proved to be detrimental to the Vietnamese collective following the arrest and prosecution of most of their New York-based operatives by the fall of 1992.

History

The gang that would be known throughout Manhattan Chinatown as Born to Kill was founded by Tho Hoang "David" Thai (born January 30, 1956). After the Fall of Saigon, David Thai had left Vietnam as a refugee, where he then made his way to the U.S. In 1983, for a short period of time, David Thai was a member of the Flying Dragons, and as a gang member he occasionally committed robberies but was never caught. After a few years, Thai left the Flying Dragons and branched out on his own, establishing a budding multimillion-dollar counterfeit watch business. Using the profits from the watch business, David Thai began to orchestrate a gathering between him and several high-ranking members of a Vietnamese street gang then known as the "Canal Boys," but the gang's name would later be established as "Born to Kill" in 1988. The phrase Born to Kill was adopted from the slogan that U.S helicopters and American soldiers had on their helmets during the Vietnam War.

Born to Kill (1967 film)

Born to Kill (Italian: Nato per uccidere, also known as Django - nato per uccidere) is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film written, directed and produced by Antonio Mollica, at his directorial debut.

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