Racist Blacks beat a Chinese man to death

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An advertising executive for the country's largest Chinese-language newspaper was robbed and strangled by two teenagers who spotted him sleeping in a luxury sport utility vehicle late at night, prosecutors said Thursday.

Those two and another teenager charged in connection with the attack on 49-year-old David Kao, who worked for The World Journal, preyed on Asian men to rob, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. But the case is not being prosecuted as a hate crime, he said.

Kao's colleagues and friends said they were more concerned with the brutal manner in which he was killed rather than whether the suspects were targeting Asians.

"I think what made us uncomfortable was how brutal these people are," said Richard Li, his supervisor at the Journal. "I think that bothered us even more. We don't really think about if it as a racial thing or a hate crime thing."

According to statements the suspects made to police, 17-year-old Chris Levy slipped into the Lexus SUV early Saturday and grabbed Kao from behind in a headlock. Cory Azor, 16, helped yank him into the back seat, according to statements they made to police. They told police Kao was apparently drunk; Levy punched him and put him in a choke hold.

Then Kao stopped moving.

They drove the SUV to a grassy area, took Kao's wallet and dumped the body, then sped away, according to their statements to police.

"Chris said the guy still had a pulse, and we found a place to drop him off," Azor said in his statements.

The two were charged Wednesday with second-degree murder. A third teenager, Keron Wilthshire, was accused of driving the stolen Lexus after Kao's death and was charged with criminal possession of stolen property.

Levy and Azor were being held without bail, and Wilthshire was ordered held on $75,000 bail. Levy's lawyer, Robert Weinstein, declined to comment Thursday, and Azor and Wilthshire's lawyer didn't return messages seeking comment.

The three were also charged with robbing 42-year-old Jin Tong Yuan as he entered an elevator at a building about a week before Kao was killed, prosecutors said. Yuan said he was ambushed and put in a choke hold while another person showed off a silver handgun and they stole his cash and a cell phone.

The World Journal has a daily circulation of 350,000. The paper's national desk editor, Joe Wei, said the company wished to extend condolences to Kao's family.

"We do wish that justice can be served," he said. "Something like this is beyond our comprehension."

Kao was one of the newspaper's top account executives and very popular among his colleagues, Li said. He was unmarried and has a daughter who lives in Taiwan, Li said.

"He was Mr. Congeniality. A very popular guy, and he worked very hard. It is a terrible loss," he said.

The three teenagers were taken into custody Monday after someone called 911 and reported an argument near an SUV parked in an alley about 2 miles from where the teenagers found Kao, police said. Investigators checked the plates and found it was registered to Kao's sister.

When the teens arrested, they had Kao's keys and wallet, prosecutors said.

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