League of Legends Player Who Stabbed Teen at Internet Cafe Avoids Charges

Back in April, a man was playing League of Legends at an internet cafe in Flushing, Queens, New [...]

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Back in April, a man was playing League of Legends at an internet cafe in Flushing, Queens, New York City. The New York Post reported that a homeless gamer fatally stabbed a teen after a disagreement which led to physical confrontation.

Things began at 9:15 PM when Yangpu Fan, 19, and his friends asked Paul Kim, 51, to move over so the group could play together. Kim declined and told the boys, "I'm spending my time."

The teens didn't take the answer as well as Kim hoped and they started to repeatedly punch Kim in the head. Shortly after, the group came back to the cafe with more people and Kim was thrown over one of the computer terminals according to the police. Kim then pulled out a knife and stabbed Fan.

"The knife was very small, and nobody noticed he stabbed him," said Paul Chen, manager at the K&D Internet Cafe. "There were 40 or 50 customers and nobody noticed."

Chen would then continue to play his game of League of Legends until the police came and arrested him.

Fan was taken by his friends to the New-York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens where he died.

Paul Kim was cleared by a Queens grand jury of any criminal wrongdoing. They stated that he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Fan. The Queens DA's office didn't say why the grand jury didn't indict Kim but his own attorneys said it was because of the "overwhelming evidence" they had to prove Kim's self-defense claim. "It appears as though the DA presented all the evidence in a fair proceeding to the grand jury," said one of Kim's lawyers, Kenneth Finkelman.

Fan's parents have since spoken out and said, "This kind of behavior is not by accident," Fan's mother said to the China Press. "This homeless man, he killed my son and the next day he will kill another man," Fan's father said.

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