On Friday, police arrested two men in the death of chef Hwangbum Yang, the 26-year-old Bronx man who was fatally shot by a robber who was after his iPhone. Suspects Dominick Davis and Alejandro Campos, who are charged with murder, robbery, gun possession and possession of stolen property, were denied bail yesterday. The public defender for Campos, the alleged getaway driver, said his client was in the wrong place at the wrong time: “He said he didn’t know anything about a gun,” said Calvin. “He’s just devastated about what happened. He’s maintained his innocence.”
Police were able to catch the suspects because they tried to sell the stolen phone on Craigslist for $400. “Have two iPhone 4’s for sale Inwood/Wash Hits,” the ad read. Yang, who was walking home from his Museum of Modern Art restaurant job, was held at gunpoint at the corner of Cambridge Avenue and West 232 Street in Riverdale around 12:30 a.m. on April 19. He was shot once at close range. A witness had said he saw a suspect going through his pockets: “He stopped and sort of squished something with his foot, and then I realized it was a person because he lifted [Yang’s] arms up a little. He did it so casually—that’s what is so scary.”
Calvin noted that Campos has no prior arrests, and holds down a full-time job with a cable company, earning $1,000 a week. “He has lived at the same address with his family for 14 years,” the lawyer added. “[This is] someone at the wrong address at the wrong time who has no record.”
