Five shot dead on Friday 13th. In the wee hours of Friday, December 13 1940, five seemingly unconnected persons were brutally gunned down in a hail of bullets in the back room of a seedy establishment on Keong Saik Street in Chinatown. A group of men were engaged in the vice of opium smoking when the assailants burst into the room and relieved them of their valuables at gunpoint. Instead of leaving, the gunmen then opened fire.