NY NY - Queens, AsianMale 30-50, UP7847, held hostage & physically abused, tattoo, scars, Feb'94.

[Goecke]

At least to me, the tattoo is too faded to determine what it says or even what language it's in.

Also, Vietnamese uses the latin alphabet.

 

[Miranda]

His NamUs page now lists the circumstances of recovery as "Unknown male found on roadway. May have been missing for months".

 

[Mr.Dandy]

Ozone Park is not far from the ship crash

The Golden Venture Tragedy: From hell at sea to the American Dream

Bad link

 

[cenazoic]

Phone editing, but maybe makes it a bit more clear:

Tracing what i see:

Interestingly , Google Translate reads this as Welsh, although these characters don’t correspond.

 

[Mr.Dandy]

Phone editing, but maybe makes it a bit more clear:

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Tracing what i see:


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Interestingly , Google Translate reads this as Welsh, although these characters don’t correspond.

It does have a Gaelic look but it definitely looks Chinese too

 

[Mr.Dandy]

Phone editing, but maybe makes it a bit more clear:

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Tracing what i see:


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Interestingly , Google Translate reads this as Welsh, although these characters don’t correspond.

My thinking is, if he was a specific type of immigrant, maybe he had an identification tattoo. Or if he was in a gang…. Or a prison. But if that was the case, it would be something common or semi common.

 

[Mr.Dandy]

The t-shirt on a man.....I wonder if it is meant to be perverse somehow?

I was thinking about this. Immigrants don’t really care. I see a lot of them on a regular basis(Asian and Hispanic) and some just don’t care what they wear. A lot of Asian men wear women’s glasses and shoes too. This might be a plausible explanation. It also may not. I just wanted to put it out there.

 

[liminal-limitless]

So I got here from another more recent thread and I'm pretty sure the tattoo is sideways and should look like this:

The bottom part I'm pretty sure about, the top half I'm not. I couldn't find the actual word by reverse image searching but I feel like if someone speaks Chinese (or Japanese?) they should be able to recognize it. (I've done a couple years of Duolingo Japanese so that's how I recognized the forms of the character, but I'm nowhere near able to recognize most kanji by sight)

 

[Via Marple]

Here's an image of the tattoo. Does this look similar to Chinese or Vietnamese writing?

So I got here from another more recent thread and I'm pretty sure the tattoo is sideways and should look like this:
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The bottom part I'm pretty sure about, the top half I'm not. I couldn't find the actual word by reverse image searching but I feel like if someone speaks Chinese (or Japanese?) they should be able to recognize it. (I've done a couple years of Duolingo Japanese so that's how I recognized the forms of the character, but I'm nowhere near able to recognize most kanji by sight)

The character has to be 忍 in Mandarin and Japanese kanji.
Images on Google:

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[liminal-limitless]

The character has to be 忍 in Mandarin and Japanese kanji.
Images on Google:

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Oh wow, if it really is the character for 'to bear/tolerate/endure' that's crazy considering what he went through before he died

 

[The4TierBridge]

He now has a reconstruction from the Queens County DA website. A bunch of people from Queens got reconstructions recently which is good (but they appear to be AI-generated or AI-enhanced which makes me concerned about their accuracy.

 

[The4TierBridge]

Link to DA website (Q94-00621): MALE 2-3-1994 NAMUS UP7847 - OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY QUEENS COUNTY

Link to NamUs 2.0: The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Bobban]

Trough some Google searches 仄心 in Chinese appears to have the meaning of "uneasy mind" or "disturbed heart".

 

[Aurora90]

Hmm.. I wonder could he be Sing Jun Jang?

Photo Credits: Archived Bergen County Prosecutor's Website

DOB: 04/20/1973
Current Age: 50 (As of February 23, 2024)
Height: 5'5
Weight: 140 lbs
Ethnicity: Chinese

Date Of Crime: May 24, 1993
Location Of Crime: Teaneck, New Jersey

Sing Jun Jang is the last suspect wanted in connection with a quadruple homicide. Sing and his co-defendants were members of the Ching gang. The gang made money from illegal activities such as arson, extortion, loan sharking and smuggling Chinese immigrants into the United States. The gang members plotted to kill members of a rival gang and steal an expected shipment of Chinese immigrants.

The Ching gang members attacked a safe house belonging to the rival gang. As a result, Ling Wang Guo, Yu Ping Zhang, Guang Sheng Li, and Liang Qun Guo were shot and stabbed to death. A smuggled Chinese immigrant survived the attack. Most of the Ching gang members were arrested after the quadruple homicide and convicted. Sing Jun Jang is still wanted for his alleged involvement in the horrific crime.

Internet - BCPO

This PDF describes the high profile case and the players involved. After reading that document, I could see someone wanting to get back at him and taking retribution into their own hands.

This DOE might also be one of the illegal immigrants that couldn't pay the loan to be smuggled in. They lived in gang-run houses until the debt was paid.

His gang also has a wiki page. They also called themselves the Snakeheads (there are other Asian Does with snake tattoos, I think there is something here)

The United States Department of Justice called Ping "one of the first, and ultimately most successful, alien smugglers of all time."<a href="Sister Ping - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a>