Feng Huang Yu confessed to fatally stabbing Chang Qing Huang in the neck while they slept in Columbus Park, in Manhattan’s Chinatown (NYC).
After being arrested, the suspect said that both homeless men had fought over space inside the park on Bayard St, Chinatown, near NYPD headquarters, One Police Plaza.
The crime happened early Sunday morning, around 3:30 am According to prosecutors announced yesterday, the 48-year-old victim asked Huang Yu (49) to lend him a cardboard that I could use to sleep on and so he did, although apparently he did not like “new” people to spend the night there.
The suspect regularly sleeps in the park pavilion, Assistant District Attorney Mathew Fontanez said during the arraignment of the suspect in Manhattan Criminal Court, near where the crime took place.
Qing Huang lay down on the cardboard and fell asleep with his back to Huang Yu, who then stabbed him in the neck from behind, a witness told NYPD. As the suspect ran away, the bleeding victim waved two officers outside the courthouse.
A badly wounded Qing Huang told police what had happened and described his attacker, who was caught a few blocks away. The victim looked at him and confirmed his identity, prosecutor Fontanez said. The murder weapon was found in the suspect’s pocket.he added.
The injured man was rushed by paramedics to Bellevue Hospital, where he died about 30 minutes laterdetailed Daily News.
The suspect has a police record. In 2009, he was convicted of felony assault for an unprovoked attack on an elderly man at a homeless shelter, Fontanez said.
Records show that he was sentenced to two years in prison that time and released on probation in January 2010. In 2018, he was found guilty of attempted sexual abuse, sentenced to four years and released on probation in December 2021, which was in force at the time of his arrest on Sunday.
He was held without bail after his appearance. All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
In a similar case, in July a fight between homeless men left a victim fatally stabbed in washington squareiconic Manhattan park plagued by violence in recent years, despite being in the middle of the NYU university area, next to the bohemian Greenwich Village neighborhood and the beginning of elegant 5th Avenue.
Days later, a Hispanic man was stabbed “randomly” while he slept on a bench at Pier 84 in Hudson River Park, between the Circle Line tourist terminal and the Intrepid Museum, in Midtown West, Manhattan. A Latino teenager detained in the case said he had gone out to kill “the first person he saw.”
