N.Y. Crackdown on Crime
July 29, 2005
Guilty Plea in Death of Delivery Man
Queens teenager Nayquan Miller, 18, pled guilty to murder and robbery in the savage death of Chinese food deliveryman Huang Chen, 18. He will receive 20 years to life.
“This is part two of the trilogy of pain and suffering that the Chen family has gone through,” City Councilman John Liu said outside State Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, accomplice William Capehart, also 18, of Corona, was arraigned on murder and robbery charges and ordered held without bail.
A third assailant, Charles Bryant, 17, of Rosedale, was convicted in March and sentenced to 51-1/3 years to life in prison.
Prosecutors contend the three teens, after placing an order for Chinese food, robbed Chen, of $49, then stabbed him after repeatedly beating him with a hammer and baseball bat. The killers stuffed Chen’s body in a garbage bag, then into a laundry cart, then into the Mazda used to make the food delivery and finally into a pond in Brookville Park before burning much of the physical evidence in an area school yard, prosecutors said.
“Our family is very happy the third guy is finally arrested,” Chen’s sister, Yvonne, said with her father, Xing Shou Chen; mother, Shui Ying Lin; and sister, Summer. “We hope that he will stay behind bars forever.”
Cop Flap in NYC
Assemblyman Jimmy Meng and Councilman John Liu are looking to local residents for help about a confrontation with anti-Asian overtones between three white police officers and residents, Mo Hyung Lee and In Su Lee.
The incident started over a double-parked car. The two Lees (not related) say the officers were in plain clothes and first used racial epithets and profanity. When In Su Lee told them to shut up, the police “jumped out of the car and began to attack them,” Liu said.
A physical struggle ensued, with some of the officers being injured and one of the Lees.
“There is a big difference between what the police are saying and between what Mr. Lee and his friend is saying,” said the councilman.
Meng joined Liu in “asking for witnesses to come forth to see what really happened.”
Police say an investigation is ongoing.
Hate Crime Suspected in N.Y. Robbery
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Police are investigating the assault and robbery of a 22-year-old Asian woman in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, as a possible hate crime.
The woman was near East 15th Street and Gravesend Neck Road at about 11 p.m. when she was surrounded by a group of five men and two women. The group, which the woman said was made up of blacks and Hispanics, pushed her to the ground and punched and kicked her, shouting anti-Asian slurs. They took her wallet and ran away.
The woman was not seriously injured and refused medical attention. On May 24, a bias crime occurred in the neighborhood when two swastikas were painted on two storefronts.
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