Bronx DA: Shooter Sentenced in the Killing of Korean Chef

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Dominick Davis/DOC

 

(Bronx, NY – January 12, 2016) – Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announces that 24-year-old DOMINICK DAVIS has been sentenced to 25-years-to-life, in addition to 10 years plus 5 years post-release supervision, to run consecutively, for the April 2012 shooting death of aspiring Korean chef HWANG YANG.

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Yang/Courtesy family

Supreme Court Justice Ethan Greenberg sentenced DAVIS today following a six-week-long jury trial late last year that convicted the defendant for:

 

Murder in the 2nd Degree (Class A Felony)

Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 2nd Degree (Class D Felony)

 

DAVIS received a separate sentence for the gun charge and was also sentenced as a violent predicate felon.

 

Another defendant, ALEJANDRO CAMPOS, has a pending case and is scheduled to appear before Justice Greenberg on January 12th.

 

The 26-year-old HWANG YANG was returning home from his job at the restaurant at the Museum of Modern Art when he was confronted by the duo near the subway at 232nd Street and Broadway in the early hours of the morning.

 

DOMINIC DAVIS shot YANG inside Ewen Park and CAMPOS is accused of selling Yang’s phone on Craigslist for $400.

 

 

Sunah Yang, the sister of HWANG YANG, addressed the Court and ALEJANDRO CAMPOS about the young man who was more than a brother, but also a mentor – “He was like a parent and a best friend.

 

                “A huge emptiness and sorrow [has taken his place] and set upon our family.  Nightmares follow me wherever I go, or whatever I do.  The image of my brother lying on a cold cement floor…comes into my mind and makes me want to scream – and I burst into tears.

 

                “I think about how [scared] he was, how frightened he must have been when the gun was pointing right at him. 

 

                “I desperately want my brother back if I [could] change the time – the time when my family was happy before [Davis] took my brother away from us.”

 

The case against DOMINIC DAVIS was prosecuted by Senior Trial Assistant District Attorney Theresa Gottlieb and Jennifer Gray of Trial Bureau 20/50.

 

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