Ex-Gambling Boss Shot And Killed In Restaurant

Chris Huie used to be the boss of one of the most active Chinese gambling organizations. The man who was found guilty of illegal gambling was shot and killed as he ate at a restaurant in Oakland’s Chinatown, police said on Wednesday. Huie was 31 and was from Oakland. Police add that he was sitting inside the Legendary Palace restaurant at 708 Franklin St. when someone from the street started to shoot at about 11:50 p.m. on Tuesday. The doctors said he died at Highland Hospital at 12:19 a.m. on Wednesday. The attacker ran away. No one else in the restaurant got hurt. Two years ago Huie was found guilty of taking bets at his home. He probably was not killed by accident – “Somebody planed to kill him for sure,” said Oakland murder police officer number two, Jim Emery. Huie was on a test period after a statement that he will not defend in a court of law in 2001 for a crime of bookmaking. He was caught after the police investigation. He was also found guilty in 1997 in federal court for planning to help illegal immigrants to enter the country. In that case, federal lawyers charged him with taking part in a “very big operation of taking immigrants illegally from one country to another” after two boats with Chinese people came on to the land on the West Coast. Oakland police arrested Huie in October 2001 after officers found $35,000 in his bedroom wardrobe. According to court, they took the money and also such proof of bookmaking as audiotapes, sports newspapers and horseracing betting pieces of paper. Also, police found $9,000 more in a room for mah-jongg and 13-card poker. The room was above a bakery on the 300 block of Ninth Street in Oakland’s Chinatown. When he was arrested, Huie said he was a builder who works on his own. He exclaimed to an officer, “You never told me I couldn’t have the gambling room open. I’m only an unimportant bookmaker,”  Officer Robert Chan who works on the gang wrote in his report. The data taken from Huie’s home on East 25th Street showed that people bet anywhere from $100 to $5,000  for a game on any sports that were in season. “It is clear that Chris Huie took part in a big and well-organized illegal betting business,” Chan wrote.