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police find body, car
City police await autopsy results as they ponder filing additional charges in deliveryman's death
Date published: 7/7/2008
By PAMELA GOULD Fredericksburg police plan to wait until an autopsy is completed today to decide whether to pursue capital murder charges and a possible death sentence in the killing of a local restaurant deliveryman. Police found what is presumed to be the body of 24-year-old Yong Hui Zhang of Fredericksburg in a remote, wooded area of Sussex County about 1:30 yesterday morning, three days after he disappeared from Fredericksburg while making a delivery for his family's China Express restaurant. The remains will be positively identified through forensic techniques, police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said. Zhang's 2004 Nissan Sentra was found a short distance from the remains, Bledsoe said. About 5 p.m. Saturday, police arrested two suspects in Zhang's disappearance at a Wal-Mart in the city of Franklin after Zhang's credit card was used to buy items in the store. Jermaine Montgomery, 34, and his girlfriend Marcey White, 36, are charged with abduction, carjacking, credit card theft and conspiracy. Bledsoe said discussions about possible additional charges, including capital murder, are expected to take place today. Under state law, a slaying in the commission of another felony, including abduction or robbery, qualifies for a charge of capital murder and a possible death sentence. Montgomery and White are scheduled for arraignment tomorrow morning in Fredericksburg District Court. It was unclear yesterday whether they would appear in person or via a closed-circuit video system, Bledsoe said. Montgomery is being held without bond in Southampton County. White is in custody in Sussex County. Zhang's parents contacted police about 10:15 p.m. Thursday when they were closing their business on U.S. 1 to report that their son had not returned from making three food deliveries. Police determined he left the Fredericksburg restaurant about 9:20 p.m. and successfully made the first two deliveries. A large amount of blood and a shoe believed to be Zhang's were found behind the third location, the vacant Colonial Heights apartments at 202 Charles St. One of the first leads police received was a security video showing a man using Zhang's credit card at the Four Mile Fork Shell in Spot-sylvania County at 10:45 p.m. Thursday.
Date published: 7/7/2008
Racially motivated?
(posted by
Blk97F150
, July 9, 2008 7:32 am)
Racially motivated? Based on the information that has been released, I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion? This was a lot of things.... but racial, it wasn't. I suspect the delivery driver could have been any race, and the outcome would have been the same.
Beasts
(posted by
krasnyibog
, July 8, 2008 8:09 am)
I would like to contact Yong Hui's family and express my sympathy and outrage about this vile incident. It's probably worthwhile for the Commonwealth to consider this crime racially motivated because of its degree of premeditation and the senselessness of it. The boy was killed for gas money! If convicted, death is really too good for them, but it will have to do. BTW...with the prevalence of vendors that insist on customers scanning their own card at checkout, no one else even needed to handle the cc.
CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL
(posted by
insrchofpeace
, July 8, 2008 12:38 am)
TO ALL PERSONS LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY OF CHARLES AND DIXON STREETS - I PROPOSE A CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL IN MEMORY OF YONG - LET'S COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY AND SHOW OUR DEEPEST REGRETS AND RESPECT TO YONG AND HIS FAMILY - YOU CAN EMAIL ME AT PERIDOT8803@COX.NET TO HELP ORGANIZE THIS VIGIL. MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE ZHANG FAMILY - LET OUR COMMUNITY SHOW THEIR SUPPORT AND COME TOGETHER AS ONE - ANYONE INTERESTED PLEASE CONTACT ME AT THE ABOVE LISTED EMAIL ADDRESS.
comment
(posted by
Damagedhisplan
, July 7, 2008 11:51 pm)
Thanks for giving out her myspace..I left a nice little comment on her blog for her friends and family to read..which by the way her whole page is helarious, talking about doing good for herself from now on...and that was last month
Justice
(posted by
Damagedhisplan
, July 7, 2008 11:24 pm)
What's crazy is that i live in the apartment complex the Zhang family lives in and I live Directly below them..I saw Yong the day he dissapeared, when he was on his way to work..and i usually saw him everyday when he got home, because i like to just sit outside.. his family has had a terrible loss and I believe that the death penalty should be sought just for the fact that the kid was fricking working, Doing his job! Way to go show foreigners that America is home of the people who take freedom too far
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