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The 14-year-old boy held for second-degree manslaughter in the death of a Columbia graduate student appeared in family court yesterday, as lawyers, police officials, and an aunt who cares for him weighed in. A judge assigned the boy, named Sheldon, lawyers and decided he would be tried as a juvenile offender in Family Court.
A city Law Department attorney told the court, "This attack was predatory in nature." The boy, named Sheldon, had punched 24-year-old Minghui Yu in the face on a Broadway median at West 122nd Street Friday night. After a struggle, Yu ran into the street and was fatally struck by a vehicle.
Sheldon, described as "teary" and "weeping" in court, is being held in a juvenile facility. While the police claimed Sheldon, who admitted he was involved with Yu's death, showed no remorse, his aunt told reporters after the hearing, "He's very sorry. He cries night by night." She blamed his friends, calling them "thugs," and said her nephew is "a very good boy. He’s not a thug. He’s a game head. He plays Xbox." According to the NY Times, a probation officer testified Sheldon was in counseling when he was younger and that he didn't get along with his mother, who lives in Florida and suffers from depression. He now lives with his aunt in the Bronx.
Columbia faculty and students held a vigil for Yu on campus yesterday. Columbia president Lee Bollinger said he spoke to Yu's father, "There is nothing you could say to the parents of a young person, or any child, to begin to make up for the sense of loss.” Senator Chuck Schumer is helping Columbia aid Yu's parents in getting their visas to come to NY expedited--Schumer said, "These parents have already suffered such a great loss and do not deserve to now be caught in a bureaucratic morass."
Photograph of the memorial for Yu by Bwog
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he's a very good boy. He’s not a thug. he just hangs out with thugs. on the streets. at night. violently attacking innocent people. causing their deaths.
such a good boy.
the whole thing is tragic.
of course, Yu's parents don't have a multimillion dollar lawsuit, unlike crazy drunk lady at airport. If you're going to die a senseless death, do your family a favor and be sure to have someone with deep pockets involved.
crocodile tears from a shoulda-been abortion. what a piece of trash.
"he's a game head, he plays xbox"
Maybe he's crying cause he won't get to play GTA IV. Coming out April 29th for the Xbox 360 and PS3 gaming systems.
-RS
The left tail of the Bell Curve is wagging.
Uh oh. I hope they don't try and blame it on the Xbox...
"Uh oh. I hope they don't try and blame it on the Xbox..."
of course they are. She should have said, "he's a bookworm, he reads books."
Why are you still posting round-the-clock coverage of this one tragedy, given the hyper-reactionary Anti-Black comments the last articles have inspired? Is Gothamist now in the business of encouraging racism and eugenics endorsements? Or, judging by the flooded responses to the last few articles about this, maybe this is just pandering to bigot chickenhawks for site traffic.
lock him up and throw away the key...or make him join the peace corp in mongolia for 15 years
Oh shut up Avenue Hebrew, you're encouraging antisemitism. It's obvious that this site has a Columbia bias.
I have been hearing a lot of racist jokes about Asians lately, especially Chinese.
What's going on?
This incident is wrong from any angle.
Having living in West Harlem for five years (Columbia is a bit further south), there has always been fierce jealousy/animosity towards gentrification'ers & perceived outsiders.
My condolences goes out to Yu and his family.
I personally find racial jokes distasteful and not funny. It's fat jokes that are the ones that are really funny.
It's interesting that we often get this retarded "ask family and friends" phase of news coverage, now. I really wish they wouldn't print these dumbass inflammatory statements from people who are hopelessly biased.
Does anyone else find this whole thing to be eerily familiar...
April 2006 - NYU student Broderick J. Hehman, was chased into traffic by teens on 125th Street and killed? What ever happened to those kids?
NY Times article
I like the peace corps Idea for 15 years. That'd build a lot of character.
we need more sheldons to harass folk into
leaving this city and we can work on undoing the
disneyland this once interesting city has become
This isn't anti-black, this is anti-stupid-youth. There are plenty of black people who will still be my friends after this, and I don't hold anything against them cause they actually have some activity in their brains. The real tragedy is that the person who got killed actually had a bright future and was the kind of person society could have used.
Yeah, ihateallbrokers, I agree. They can start with your stupid ass.
Responsibility.
His parents didn't take any. You can't blame the aunt too much, I mean, she didn't have to take care of him but she stepped up, though obviously didn't do a very good job.
The Times should follow what happens to this kid. I'd like to see where he is 10 years from now.
Juvie is only gonna make him harder, it'll be like thug college. And then he'll be back on the street in 5 years tops, harder, angrier and more dangerous. I guarantee it.
The kid needs to learn that life isn't the same as Grand Theft Auto. But I'm not even sure how pissed to be at the kid. Gothamist didn't mention that his supposed "father" is locked up in a New York state prison somewhere. His tried to live with his depressed mother but she sent him away because she said she coudn't deal with him -- probably while she's self-medicating he depression with crack, heroin, meth or whatever. The aunt he lives with in the Bronx things nothing of letting him run around Manhattan on his own all night. This story is enough to turn me into a bleeding heart liberal. He needs to be held responsible for what he did but I would love to see the rest of his family join him at Spofford or wherever he's going.
Having living in West Harlem for five years (Columbia is a bit further south), there has always been fierce jealousy/animosity towards gentrification'ers & perceived outsiders.
Granted, I've only lived here since January (137th and 8th), but I've never felt any jealousy or animosity. The people up here have been some of the most friendly I've encountered in NY.
Also, anyone notice the wealth of assholes named Sheldon in the news lately? I guess if you want your kid to be a douche, that's the name you should pick.
books are like krytonite to them. now who said that?
He was in counseling? Boo f'ing hoo. He is a savage criminal who even at 13 has secured his place as a danger to society and guaranteed repeat offender.
He's only crying cuz he is afraid of getting in trouble. What a little twerp. Throw him in the slammer forever.
The last two comments are ridiculous. I think we know the George Bush / Republican method of crime control of build more jails instead of schools doesn't work.
The kid deserves to be punished--but he's 13, and think of how many asshole things we did as teenagers that could've had tragic consequences, and thank God most of us didn't.
There are reasons that kids are acting out and trying to be hypermasculine and impress their friends by doing idiotic things. And it has nothing to do with racist bell curve theories or inherent badness. If any of you had lived half the lives these kids have probably grown up in with no mentors or guidance--who knows what stupid and dangerous stunt you would've pulled.
@Vesselar:
So boys-will-be-boys, even when they attack innocent civilians? The "why" doesn't matter when peoples' lives are at stake, it's not worth it.
If you are willing to let violent juvenile offenders off with a slap on the wrist, your hippie-like thinking is dangerous to my personal safety. If Minghui Yu was your son or lover you would have a very different attitude.
The comments on this site make me sick. I wish I could block people from seeing their vitriol day in and day out.
First, I wouldn't call attacking people for no reason "hypermasculine" or even masculine. Second, I'm not sure why you are so quick to attribute what this kid did to a lack of mentoring or guidance. Maybe that was a factor, maybe not. There are plenty of people who have lousy childhoods that grow up to be good people, and plenty of people with great childhoods who grow up to be shitheads. This kid does not deserve a parade of sympathy for his behavior. Granted, he might not improve as a result of being in the system, but something needs to happen.
holy crap you can say shitheads on gothamist?
No one can declare why Sheldon did what he did. Probably not even Sheldon. We certainly don't need a parade of sweeping generalizations, either.
You can make it a black thing, a bell-curve thing, a socioeconomic thing, a Harlem thing, whatever. Sheldon is still responsible for his actions and he will be punished. And Minghui will not come back from the dead.
A young man did a shitty thing and another young man is gone. There will be consequences and there will be grief. And it will happen again tonight somewhere else in New York, in America, in the world.
Broadway and 112th isn't the only place where sad things happen.
This kid doesn't deserve any sympathy and should be tried as an adult. Growing up poor or with shitty parents doesn't give you the right to go around committing manslaughter. Theres a thing called personal responsibility that some members of our community think doesn't apply to you based on the color of your skin and your income level. Fuck that. I grew up on welfare in the Chinatown projects and CHOSE to study and go to college and get a job, as did many childhood friends. We all make our own decisions and have to deal with the repercussions, no matter how much we cry or like XBOX.
How long until Tom Clancy writes a novel where terrorists use the death of a child to gain expedited entry into the US to stage an attack?
Republic crime control tactics worked wonders in this city since 1994. The difference between NYC today and 1990 is huge.
The precinct in which this crime occurred had something like 90 murders in 1990 and 5 last year.
As is always the case - cowardly liberals fled the city that was destroyed by their policies. Once the problems got kinda fixed, they move back and tell us we need to spend more money!
Get a grip. This city spent a fortune on schools, alternative education strategies, housing projects, public assistance of all types, and on and on. Nothing changed until criminals were arrested en masse.
Move back to Greenwich.
Alex, it was a lot different 4-5 years ago. Trust me.
There is very little the government or society at large can do when a young man is already a violent killer at age 13. Sadly, this thug will soon be walking the streets again. The best we can do is arm ourselves for protection. Violence is the only language some people understand.
Marti asked:
April 2006 - NYU student Broderick J. Hehman, was chased into traffic by teens on 125th Street and killed? What ever happened to those kids?
Excellent question.
One sentenced to three years in juvie, the others got eighteen months.
Wow, just 18 months in "thug camp" for ending an innocent man's life.
Extradite the animal to China where he can be taken care of with a $0.15 round.
things will never change until the rich and foreign are deported and expelled from our university system and more of our city's minority youth should be educated at institutions like columbia or nyu.
The post above is frickinn hilarious....fortunately NY offers many free counseling services for the disturbed!
don't they have HBC's for you people?
let's deport them, too. now go steppin.
#39
LOL
While I don't sympathize with this kid -- being raised by your aunt (with Xbox) hardly qualifies for sob story of the year -- I don't know that calling him a young killer is exactly accurate either.
He punched a guy in the face for no reason, without provocation. The guy ran into the street to get away, was hit by a car, and died. The kid is certainly guilty of battery and probably assault, but the manslaughter charge is a little more murky. He committed a crime, causing the victim to flee, in course of flight the victim was killed. Is that enough for manslaughter to stick? I don't know.
Felony Murder, imo. A robbery that lead to a death. Felony Murder. This manslaughter shit is bull.
S 125.15 Manslaughter in the second degree.
A person is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree when:
1. He recklessly causes the death of another person;
Put him through the Chinese punishment, in China.
Which includes
Standing in front of many people,
apologizing to everyone in public.
If he refuses to apologize, send him to do farm work. No Americans wants to pull weeds and grow rice.
Have him do farm work in Chains.
A better choice is send him to work
in the crocodile/aligator cleaning
in Snake Farm, in Texas.
Americans don't like to clean, or work.
Or get near dangerous animals.
THis is the best punishment.
If American children were busy most of the day
doing mandatory cleaning, like the Japanese do,
there is no time for them to commit crime,
no time to #uck around, and hurt people.
American education system, to eliminate crime committed by those under 18, hell even those over 18,
have to begin forcing children to do cleaning.
Clean the halls, the class room, the toilets.
All toilets, even the teacher's toilets.
The teacher's should intentional make the toilets and bathrooms more filthy for the bad behavior children to clean.
Fire the Janitors, and the cleaning contractors.
Make the children do the cleaning. They will be too tired to #uck with other's lifes.
Just have the Janitors supervise the children in cleaning. That's it.
playing with a gun that is fired and kills someone would be manslaughter. Robbing someone with a gun that accidentally goes off is felony murder. Punching a guy, who then runs away into the street and is hit by a car... I don't know. If he punched him and the punch caused the death, I would agree. If he chased him into the street, I would probably agree. Here I'm kind of on the fence.
Adding: because I don't know all the facts.
If the kid was in front and his friends were behind, cutting off avenues of escape other than the street, I could probably see manslaughter charges sticking also.
the guy ran into traffic on his own.
what next people will commit suicide by train next time some loud young punk is on the same platform,
get real, the guy caused his own death...
if the victim pulled out a legal licensed gun he
still would not have established the right to
blast sheldon to hell,
no real crime was committed except a harrasment
(petty violation)
or assault (3rd degree misdeamenor)
Minghui Yu should be awarded a darwin award for
his own stupidity.
okay, i don't agree with ihateallbrokers on this at all. Yu was attacked and ran from one bad situation (a senseless thug) into another (the path of a moving car). It sounds like he panicked in the face of being attacked- a response which is understandable. I would not call it stupid, just unfortunate. The guy who attacked Yu was stupid. As is posting a mean-spirited and ugly comment about someone who just died.
DUTY OF ONE IN IMMINENT PERIL
A person who, without negligence on his or her part, is suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with peril arising from either the actual presence of, or the appearance of, imminent danger to him or herself or to others, is not expected nor required to use the same judgment and prudence that is required in the exercise of ordinary care in calmer and more deliberate moments. His or her duty is to exercise the care that an ordinarily prudent person would exercise in the same or similar circumstances. If at that moment he or she does what appears to him or her to be the best thing to do, and if his or her choice and manner of action are the same as might have been followed by any ordinarily prudent person under the same conditions, he or she does all the law requires of him or her. This is true even though in the light of after-events, it should appear that a different course would have been better and safer.
RESPONSIBILITY OF ONE CAUSING THE PERILOUS SITUATION
When a situation of peril such as that described above is caused by someone's negligence, and the person in peril, acting under the impulse of fear, makes an instinctive and reasonable effort to escape and, in so doing, injures himself or herself or a third person, the negligence that caused the peril is deemed to be a cause of the injury. This is true even though it might have appeared, or after the event it may appear, from the viewpoint of another person, that the effort to escape was unwise or that the person in danger would not have been injured no one would have been injured if that effort had not been made or had been made differently.
#51- Maybe he thought running was a better idea than curling up into a ball and crying like a little girl while all of 'em pound on him. 'Cause I'm getting the feeling you'd do the latter.
This kid doesn't need Family Court, lock him forever, guaranteed he will reoffend. Its bred from birth and once its in their head, only death removes it. They start recruiting young.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/files/pdffiles/bloo0921rel.pdf
Winn admitted, among other things, that on
July 25, 2002, he sought out another man, LaQuan Brooks, for “disrespecting” the Bloods because Brooks had said to other Double ii members that he was upset about the gang
members bothering his 8-year-old son. Winn admitted that, after getting a gun, he found
Brooks, called him into the street and shot him once in the chest amid a crowd of people,
including Brooks’ son. Brooks died from his wounds.
Perhaps forced sterilization is needed.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane131
Why is anyone taking "ihateallbrokers" seriously? He's obviously a troll. In fact, I suspect he's one and the same as snoopy and/or "Albert Sharpton."
If you think about it, it was almost inevitable for this kid. If you were named "Sheldon" and lived in Harlem, you'd do whatever you can to give yourself some street cred, including beating on people who can't fight back. Remember the lines in When Harry Met Sally:
Harry: You did not have great sex with Sheldon.
Sally: I did, too.
Harry: No you didn't. Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man. But humpin' and bumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. "Do it to me, Sheldon. You're an animal, Sheldon. Ride me, big Sheldon." It doesn't work.
#56
You got down syndrome so bad, you probably have up left and right syndrome too.
Any man who let's a 14 year old child own him like this Yu did is not a man.
On a side note, I heard this child was shouting "Free Tibet" before he scared Yu shitless.
Yu probably would have stolen American secrets and sold them to his red commie chinese masters. Yu seems to be a sleeper agent.
Be very careful with the Chinese. They are not to be trusted.
Was Yu's body examined for stolen American secrets? I suggest a thorough anal cavity search for stolen memory cards with American secrets on it.
yeah, there are plenty of people who do not follow the thinkspeak of the MSM, funny how it always ends up that the brainless posters who cant think for themselves claim certain names are always the same person,
in reality you dont realize that most of the rest of you should all have the same name since you get your panties in a twist if we dont follow your lead and post OMG & LOL to everything here.