NEVER TOO YOUNG TO START A LIFE OF CRIME

Teens and boy, 12, charged with murder in Philadelphia carjacking 

 

By Joshua Rhett Miller

 

New York Post

February 18, 2022

 

 

Bloody spot where 70-year-old Chung Yan Chin (insert) was beaten to death

 

A 12-year-old boy and two teens are facing murder charges in the savage beating death of an elderly man during a carjacking in Philadelphia, authorities said.

The trio of young suspects are accused of attacking Chung Yan Chin, 70, during a violent carjacking in the city’s Mayfair section on Dec. 2, police said.

Prosecutors allege the youngsters walked up to Chin and knocked him to the ground as they started punching and kicking him to the face, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.     

                                  

Eighteen-year-old John Nusslein was charged last month in Chung Yan Chin’s death 

 

Police said “unknown offenders” then took off with Chin’s Toyota Camry.

Chin was rushed to a hospital in critical condition with a brain injury and facial fractures, court documents show. He died from his wounds weeks later on Dec. 21.

“Justice has to be done,” Mayfair resident Amy Ford told WPVI. “It is just not fair. It is sickening. It is terrible. It is too close to home.”

John Nusslein, 18, of Northeast Philadelphia, was charged last month in Chin’s slaying, while an arrest warrant has been issued for Qiyam Muhammad, 16, police told The Post.

The 12-year-old boy, who has been charged with murder as an adult, is not being identified by The Post due to his age.

Both Nusslein and the 12-year-old are being held without bail and attorneys representing them did not return calls seeking comment, the Inquirer reported.

Philadelphia police announced the murder charges against the 12-year-old Tuesday during a briefing on gun violence and carjackings. More than 800 were tallied in the city last year — or double the amount recorded in 2020, according to police statistics cited by the Inquirer.

Some 71 homicides have occurred in Philadelphia thus far in 2022 as of Thursday, which matches the figure from the same time a year ago, police data shows. The figure on that date in 2015, however, was just 29 slayings.

 

Sixteen-year-old Qiyam Muhammad is not yet in custody

 

Philadelphia ended 2021 with 562 homicide victims, statistics show, the most in the city’s history.

Muhammad was not in custody early Friday, a Philadelphia police spokeswoman told The Post.