QUEENS, NEW YORK – District Attorney Melinda Katz announced yesterday that 20-year-old Dennis Cho was arraigned on a seven-count indictment, including second-degree murder, after allegedly stabbing his mother to death in their Flushing home. According to the charges, Cho brutally attacked his mother, 59-year-old Hyun Sook Lee, on February 24th between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m., stabbing her multiple times in the back.
District Attorney Katz said: “The defendant is charged with the gruesome, cold-blooded stabbing death of his mother, a crime as horrific as can be committed. This was a brutal attack that no family should have to endure.”
Cho is also accused of engaging in an altercation with his father, Seong Woo Cho, 61, causing a laceration to his hand and attempting to strangle him. Cho has been ordered to return to court on May 3. If convicted, he faces 25 years to life in prison