flushingThe murder case was formally opened in the Federal Court of the Eastern District of New York on the 18th. The prosecutor accused defendants Qingming Yu (transliteration, ibid. below) and Zhe Zhang of being hired to shoot and kill African-American Antony Abreu. Victim Th. Xin Gu, but the defendant’s lawyer believed that the prosecution had insufficient evidence. Currently, another defendant in the case, Yu Yu, Yu Qingming’s nephew, has pleaded guilty.
Prosecutors said that on February 11, 2019, the victim Gu Xin was shot and killed by gunman Abreu at the door as she left an annual meeting at the Shangri-La Karaoke Hall in Flushing. After Gu Shin was shot in the head at close range, she fell to the ground. The gunman also shot Gu Xin in the cheek, arm and thigh. The gunman then jumped into a Honda car driven by defendant Zhang Zhe and fled the scene.
The prosecutor said that Gu Xin was originally a capable employee of Yu Qingming’s Amaco Decoration Company, but after Gu Xin left the company to start her own business on August 18, 2018, she cheated the company’s largest customer. snatched away. Yu Qingming felt that he treated Gu Xin more than his own son. Well, now I left him, feeling cheated, so I held a grudge and decided to take revenge. He conspired with his nephew Yu Yu to kill Gu Xin, so he found the defendant Zhang Zhe and Zhang Zhe found the gunman Abreu. Yu Yu received 200,000 yuan for this, Zhang Zhe received 30,000 yuan, and the gunman received 20,000 yuan, according to bank records.
➤➤➤Procurement of murder…the witness who once threatened the deceased behind his back: Yu Qingming is definitely not a kind person
Yu Qingming’s lawyer argued in his opening statement that Yu Qingming had nothing to do with this case and there was no evidence that he paid to commit the murder. He said that the company suffered losses after Gu Accused of taking more loans and doing so.marijuanaIn business, seeing that Gu Xin did a good job and was promoted, he was demoted, so he always held a grudge against Gu Xin. Furthermore, Yu Yu is a complete liar, and his testimony is completely unreliable. Furthermore, the money Yu Qingming gave you was to help him pay off his debts, not to hire assassins.
Zhang Zhe’s lawyer said that Zhang Zhe isphiladelphiaA successful investor who owns real estate and restaurants and a marijuana business, he has no motive for paying for murder. The prosecution has no evidence, no fingerprints, DNA or surveillance video to show that Zhang Zhe was at the scene when the crime occurred, and there is also no evidence that he fled the scene . Zhang Zhe has no contact with Yu Qingming, and he has not received any money from the murder case. Zhang Zhe’s lawyer accused Youyou of denying the case at first, but now he changed his tune. This was all to satisfy the prosecutor, and his testimony was not reliable.
Many family members and friends of victim Gu Xin and defendant Zhang Zhe came to the court to observe the trial. In the front row of the auditorium were a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman. As soon as Gu Xin’s picture or scene appeared on the screen, both of them couldn’t help but burst into tears. When the scene of Gu Xin’s 30th birthday celebration appeared on the screen, the woman couldn’t help crying. His relatives had to help him outside the court to calm down before he returned to the court to continue the hearing. These two people are probably Gu Xin’s parents.
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