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Slain delivery driver wasn't killed in Fredericksburg, Sharp says
Yong Hui Zhang was killed somewhere other than in Fredericksburg, commonwealth's attorney says this morning.
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Date published: 7/14/2008
BY KEITH EPPS
Any homicide-related charge against the suspects in the Yong Hui Zhang slaying would be filed somewhere other than Fredericksburg. City Commonwealth’s Attorney Charles Sharp said today that forensic evidence has proven that Zhang was not killed in Fredericksburg. Sharp would not specify what that evidence was and he said investigators have not yet been able to pinpoint a location. “But what is clear is that the fatal wound was not delivered in Fredericksburg,” Sharp said at a press conference this morning. Zhang was abducted and killed after he made a delivery for his family’s China Express restaurant the evening of July 3. Someone ordered the food to a vacant apartment on Charles Street, where they ambushed Zhang and took his car and credit card. A pool of blood and one of Zhang’s shoes was found at the scene. Zhang’s body was found July 6 in a remote area of Sussex County in southeastern Virginia. An autopsy revealed that he was killed by a knife wound to the chest. Jermaine Montgomery, 34, and Marcey White, 36, were arrested the previous day while using Zhang’s credit card at a Wal–Mart in Franklin. They are each charged in Fredericksburg with abduction, carjacking, credit card theft and three counts of conspiracy. Any murder-related charges against the suspects would be filed in either Sussex County—where Zhang’s body was found—or in an as yet undermined locality between Fredericksburg and Sussex. However, Sharp said his office would proceed with the six charges already filed against the pair and will offer what assistance it can to whichever locality ends up with the murder case. Sharp said that had the slaying occurred in Fredericksburg, he would have sought the death penalty. But he said he cannot speculate on what another commonwealth’s attorney might decide. Lyndia Ramsey is the commonwealth’s attorney in Sussex. She was not available for comment today. The charges Montgomery and White are facing in Fredericksburg carry a maximum penalty of life plus 60 years in prison. Sharp said that while he is hopeful the homicide charges will be filed before a scheduled Aug. 7 preliminary hearing in Fredericksburg, he can’t envision a scenario in which the homicide-related trial would occur first. Sharp said investigators are gathering more information every day even though the suspects are not cooperating. Montgomery and White, who are boyfriend and girlfriend, are being held without bond in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
Read more stories about Fredericksburg Date published: 7/14/2008
Abduction is considered to be a "continuing offense" ...meaning it all goes back to the original jur
(posted by
Trippletap
, July 16, 2008 4:25 pm)
Continuing Off. precedent set in Berkeley v. Comm, 19 Va. App. 279, 286, 451 S.E.2d 41, 44 (1994). Murder in the course of abduction is a capital offense (§ 8.2-31 Capital murder: 1. The willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of any person in the commission of abduction, as defined in § 18.2-48, when abduction was committed with intent to extort money or a pecuniary benefit or with intent to defile victim). Credit card & cash = pecuniary benefit. F'burg could possibly convict for capital murder.
Jury selection
(posted by
Sometimes
, July 15, 2008 8:43 am)
they would never be able to get a jury for this case around here. We are all ready for them to pay and we would be considered bias.
Mr. Sharp
(posted by
223749946
, July 15, 2008 8:17 am)
PLEASE.... If you know so damn much,just where was he killed. Let the people of Fredricksburg in on your little
secret. After all the attention on this case they deserve to know.
What difference does it make?
(posted by
kowalskiOA5599
, July 15, 2008 5:50 am)
The evidence shows that the act of murdering this young man began in F'burg. This is where his killers should be tried.
I respectfully disagree
(posted by
Einstein
, July 14, 2008 10:57 pm)
I attended the vigil to show support for the Zhang family. I have donated what I could to help them defray the cost of burying their son. I was quietly proud to see others in the community doing the same. But I feel that anger, directed at the likes of the two perpetrators of this murder, is justified. Anger will help, hopefully, prevent this and other crimes from happening. Criminals are cowards and opportunist that thrive on apathy. Anger might spur our vigilance,which may help prevent another horror.
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