Press Release
DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN KILLING OF 39-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN MASSAGE PARLOR
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Zhordrack Blodywon was charged with first-degree murder, robbery, weapon possession, sexual abuse and other charges for the fatal stabbing of Shao Ling Huang who was found inside a Flushing massage parlor with multiple stab wounds to her head and body.
District Attorney Katz said: “The defendant is accused of sexually abusing and brutally murdering a 39-year-old woman inside a Flushing business last Friday afternoon. Zhordrack Blodywon is now charged with first-degree murder for this horrific act of violence and faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole, if convicted. I thank our partners at the NYPD for quickly apprehending the defendant.”
Blodywon, 54, who is undomiciled, was arraigned yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree, robbery in the first degree, burglary in the second degree, sexual abuse in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. Queens Criminal Court Judge Jennifer Tubridy remanded the defendant and ordered him to return to court on November 17. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
District Attorney Katz said that, according to the charges and investigation, on November 6, between 3:50 p.m. and 4:15 pm, Blodywon entered a massage parlor at 36-17 164th Street. While inside the premises he forcibly touched the victim, Shao Ling Huang, 39, stole her property and stabbed her multiple times in her head and throughout her body.
The victim’s body was discovered at approximately 4:24 p.m. when another worker went to the establishment to check on Huang. The victim’s cell phone was missing from the premises.
Blodywon was apprehended three days later on Astoria Boulevard near 98th Street.
The investigation was conducted by Detective Juliana Villa of the 109th Detective Squad.
Assistant Deputy Bureau Chief Kenneth Zawistowski of the District Attorney’s Homicide Bureau is prosecuting the case with the Assistance of Assistant District Attorney Alexa Ornelas under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys John Kosinski, Bureau Chief, Karen Ross and Jonathan Selkowe, Deputy Chiefs, and under the overall supervision of Chief Assistant District Attorney Shawn Clark.
**Criminal complaints and indictments are accusations. A defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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