Sunset Park waitress who stabbed customer gets 15 years in prison
A 37-year-old waitress who fatally stabbed her boss’s brother-in-law after an argument inside the Sunset Park restaurant where she worked was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years to life in prison.
“I never had any intention of harm. Please be lenient with my sentencing, as I had no intention of death,” defendant Lan Shui Yu said through an interpreter before Justice Neil J. Firetog handed down his sentence in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
Yu pleaded guilty on March 31 to murder in the second degree for fatally stabbing Jian Yang Zhang, 44, in Lucky Zhang restaurant at 5622 8th Ave. on the evening of Feb. 15, 2016.
Yu was crying as court officers led Yu into the courtroom.