However, the band’s career came to an end on the night of January 5, 1986. Wong, the son of Chinese-American actor Victor Wong , died on a Midtown sidewalk of head trauma he suffered after being knocked to the curb during a late-night altercation. He was pronounced dead at 2:14 am, January 6, at Sutter General Hospital . Wong was 22 years old. The assailant, a minor, received a 6-month sentence for manslaughter . The band opted not to continue without Lyon Wong. The various members drifted into other groups, most notably the Pirates of Venus, the Cactus Liquors and the Whorelords. The last time Pat Stratford, Steve “Capt. Trip Mender” Hunt, and Geoff Magner ever played on stage together was at the Trocadero in SF as an encore to a Hot Rod Shopping Cart show opening for Agent Orange with J Meraz on drums.
Wong dies after altercation
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