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Robert Lee

Case from Warwick, RI dated Jun 17, 1978

Victim Details

Robert Lee

Male

Warwick

RI

1978-06-17

51

Robert

Lee

06/28/2026

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Robert Lee, 51, male, was working inside Lee's Cathay Terrace, a family-run Chinese restaurant on Post Road in Warwick, Rhode Island, when gunfire shattered a June evening in 1978. It was June 17, and by the time the shots stopped, Lee and three of his co-workers—Dorothy Johnston, 38; John O'Dell, 40; and Danny Linn—lay dead in the restaurant. Contemporary memorial records and case write-ups list the four as having been killed by gunfire that night in Warwick, a tragedy that would reverberat ...
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    I wanted to bring up a different angle of the Cathay Terrace tragedy that hasn't be... ...Read More
    07/13/2025
    I’ve been doing some digging into the tragic event at Lee’s Cathay Terrace. One aspect that real... ...Read More
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