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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 ...Read More

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Victim Details

Robert Lee

Male

Warwick

RI

1978-06-17

51

Robert

Lee

04/10/2026