Former Officer Pleads Guilty to Killing Woman in Ex-Girlfriend’s Home
The New York Times
Yvonne Wu was waiting inside her ex-girlfriend’s apartment in Brooklyn when she came home with a friend. Ms. Wu turned her service gun on the two women.
A former New York City police officer pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a woman she had found in her ex-girlfriend’s apartment and trying to kill the ex-girlfriend as well.
The officer, Yvonne Wu, 34, admitted to using her department-issued gun in 2021 to fatally shoot Jamie Liang, 24, and wound Jenny Li, whom she had dated, in an episode at Ms. Li’s Brooklyn home, according to the office of Letitia James, New York’s attorney general.
Ms. Wu, who has been held on Rikers Island, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Criminal Court last week to first-degree manslaughter and attempted murder, Ms. James said in a news release on Monday. She is to be sentenced Aug. 28, and the attorney general recommended that she receive 27 years in prison.
“Twenty-seven years — there’s no amount of years that will bring justice or comfort to us,” said Ying Cai Liang, Ms. Liang’s father.
Lawrence J. Fredella, Ms. Wu’s lawyer, could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday.
Ms. Wu was off duty at the time of the shooting. She was suspended without pay from the Police Department after being charged in connection with the shooting and was officially dismissed on Monday. Before her dismissal, Ms. Wu had worked in the department for five and a half years and had been assigned to a Brooklyn precinct.
