When Jet Li’s manager was shot dead outside his office in Hong Kong, in an underworld assassination
- Police described the ‘well-planned operation’ in which Hong Kong film producer Choi Chi-ming was gunned down by two men as he came out of a lift in 1992
- Choi was a supposed member of the 14K Hau triad group, and had been convicted of drug trafficking in the 1970s
“The brutal killing of film producer Choi Chi-ming in a busy office building yesterday was almost certainly a contract execution carried out by mainland [Chinese] gunmen for a Hongkong syndicate,” reported the South China Morning Post on April 17, 1992.
“Choi, 36, was shot dead in a well-planned operation to which there were apparently no witnesses, a source close to the police investigation team said.
“He was gunned down as he came out of the lift near the sixth-floor office of his Fully International Film Distribution Company in the Tsim Sha Tsui Centre, Mody Road at 11.15am.
“He was hit in the chin, head and chest by four of six shots fired at close range by two young men, one of whom was apparently wearing a security guard’s uniform.”
On April 19, the Post reported that detectives believe that Choi was shot dead “as a result of his underworld connections – possibly as a warning to others who may have been involved with him.