Last week, a 26-year-old Bronx man on his way home from work was fatally shot by a robber who was after his iPhone. Now police have arrested two men in the death of chef Hwangbum Yang—and police got the break in the case either after someone tried to register the stolen phone, or actually used the phone.
Dominick Davis, 20, and Alejandro Campos, 21, were arrested Thursday in the murder—both men have been charged with murder, robbery, gun possession and possession of stolen property. Yang had been held at gunpoint by the suspect at the corner of Cambridge Avenue and West 232 Street in Riverdale around 12:30 a.m., and 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.”
Yang, a culinary-school graduate who taught Sunday school, had just started working at The Modern (the Danny Meyer restaurant at MoMA) in February. His cousin, Peter Han, had told the Journal that Yang usually called his father to pick him up after work: "Today he just decided to walk home. Maybe he just didn't want his dad driving in the rain."
