 QUEENS D.A. RICHARD A. BROWN REPORTS
QUEENS YOUTH SENTENCED TO 51 YEARS TO LIFE
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced that
a Queens youth has been sentenced to 51 and 1/3 years to life in
prison for murder and other charges for the brutal slaying in February
2004 of a young Chinese food deliveryman who was robbed, beaten with
a bat and a hammer and stabbed and whose lifeless body was dumped in a pond.
District Attorney Brown said, “The crime was callous and vicious and the
punishment imposed by the Court of 51 and 1/3 years to life in prison is
more than warranted. The victim, 18-year-old Huang Chen, was his family’s
hope and pride and his death has left them shattered by grief. I hope that they
find solace in the knowledge that justice has been done.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Charles Bryant, 17, of
245-39 147th Drive in Rosedale, Queens. He was convicted on March 16,
2005 of Murder in the Second Degree, Robbery in the First Degree and
Tampering With Physical Evidence by a jury after a three week trial before
Queens Supreme Court Justice Robert C. Hanophy who earlier today imposed
sentence of 51 and 1/3 years to life in prison.
The District Attorney said that according to the trial testimony sometime after
10 p.m. on Friday, February 13, 2004 at 168-24 127th Street in Rochdale Village,
a housing development in South Jamaica, Queens, the defendant, and others placed
a food order for a delivery to an apartment at 168-24 127th Street.
The defendant -- and two alleged accomplices –- attacked the victim, Huang Chen,
18, by beating him with a bat and a hammer and stabbing him in the upper torso with
a knife during a robbery inside the residence.
After the fatal attack, the defendant disposed of physical evidence of the crime
including blood-stained clothing and dumped the victim’s body in a pond in
Brookville Park a few miles away.
One of the alleged accomplices, Defendant Nayquan Miller, 16, of 168-24 127th
Avenue in Jamaica, Queens is being held without bail on murder charges pending trial.
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