TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2005

D.A. BROWN: QUEENS TEENAGER SENTENCED TO 19 YEARS IN PRISON FOR STABBING DEATH OF 15-YEAR-OLD BOY

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Queens teenager has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for the stabbing death of a 15-year-old boy that took place in January 2004 in Flushing, Queens.

District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant has now been punished for this vicious crime that cut short the life of a young boy and has left his family shattered by grief. I hope the family finds solace in the knowledge that justice has been done.”

The District Attorney identified the defendant as Jing Edison Dong, 17, of 45-64 Burling Street in Flushing, Queens who pled guilty on October 11, 2005 to Manslaughter in the First Degree before Queens Supreme Court Justice Randall T. Eng who imposed today’s determinate sentence of 19 years in prison.

The District Attorney said the defendant admitted that on January 30, 2004 at approximately 5:00 pm in front of 136-42 Maple Avenue in Flushing, he stabbed the victim, Chimei Chan, multiple times in the torso, neck and arms, fatally wounding him.

The defendant was arrested shortly after the incident when police followed a trail of blood from the crime scene which led them to the defendant who was hiding in a closet in a friend’s nearby apartment.

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer L. Naiburg of the District Attorney’s Homicide Trials Bureau prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Jack Warsawsky, Deputy Bureau Chief and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.