Graphic Particulars Revealed In Household’s Triple Homicide by Taekwondo Teacher

Kyung Kwang Yoo — proprietor of Lion’s Taekwondo and Martial Arts Academy in Sydney — pleaded responsible to a few counts of homicide on Thursday by way of video hyperlink, within the deaths of Min Kyung Cho, 41, her husband Hyun Soo “Steven” Cho, 39, and the couple’s 7-year-old son, Benjamin.

Alongside together with his plea got here the agreed information of the crime, detailing how Yoo killed all three victims, in addition to his claims he himself was attacked after exhibiting as much as the hospital with stab wounds after murdering Steven.

The murders went down on February 19, 2024, after Benjamin and his mom confirmed as much as the academy for lessons; the boy was coaching for his black belt on the time.

Per the docs, by way of Sydney Morning Herald, the kid arrived for his top notch at 4:30pm, earlier than his mom entered the studio at 6:20 and was seen talking with Yoo. She then adopted the trainer right into a storage room, the place she was strangled.

Yoo then completed the category, referred to as his spouse to say he had been given a brand new BMW from his second job after which introduced the boy into the identical storage room and strangled him to loss of life.

The BMW he instructed his spouse about, it appears, was really Min’s — and one thing he instructed his spouse he could be receiving weeks earlier than the homicide.

After killing the firs two victims, Yoo then took Min’s automobile to the couple’s residence and confronted her husband. Per the assertion of information, Yoo stabbed the person with each a knife and scissors within the head, neck and torso.

Steven, nonetheless, fought again — and Yoo was left with a number of stab wounds of his personal. He returned to his studio and referred to as his spouse, saying he had been stabbed and wanted to go to the hospital.

On the hospital, he instructed authorities he had been attacked by three folks in a car parking zone. His spouse then instructed police he had been driving a BMW that night, prompting a search of that automobile; inside, they discovered blood, in addition to a falsified grasp’s diploma in Yoo’s title, amongst different paperwork.

Steven’s physique was found by involved pals the subsequent day, earlier than police discovered his spouse and son inside Lion’s Taekwondo Academy, the place they’d been left by their killer. Yoo was then arrested on the hospital that evening.

No actual motive has been revealed for the brutal crimes, although the docs state Yoo was a compulsive liar who was identified to make up tales about his earnings, training and possessions; he additionally allegedly has an “obsession” with luxurious objects.

He’ll be sentenced later this 12 months.

Per NBC News, the utmost sentence for somebody convicted of homicide is life imprisonment, a normal non-parole interval of 20 years for the homicide of an grownup and 25 years for the homicide of a kid.