{"id":361694,"date":"2026-08-03T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361694\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:53:31","slug":"suspect-in-2012-execution-style-murder-at-orlando-restaurant-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361694\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in 2012 \u2018execution-style\u2019 murder at Orlando restaurant pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla.  \u2013 A man accused in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/25\/this-decade-old-central-florida-cold-case-may-have-just-been-cracked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/25\/this-decade-old-central-florida-cold-case-may-have-just-been-cracked\/\">2012 \u201cexecution-style killing\u201d <\/a>of an Orlando restaurant worker pleaded not guilty on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Prosecutors say new DNA evidence helped identify a suspect more than a decade after the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Calvin Washington, 34, appeared before a judge on a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm. His attorney entered a not guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Investigators said Ying Sun, 53, was working inside the China Wok restaurant on Silver Star Road near Pine Hills Road in September 2012 when a masked gunman walked in and shot her execution-style.<\/p>\n<p>Ying Sun (Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Washington was considered a person of interest at the time, but it took years to build a case that led to the new charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Authorities said DNA evidence recovered during the investigation \u2014 including from clothing, gloves and money \u2014 ultimately linked Washington to the killing and an armed robbery connected to the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A judge set Washington\u2019s trial tentatively for November. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Washington is already serving a 30-year prison sentence in an unrelated case.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 A man accused in the 2012 \u201cexecution-style killing\u201d of an Orlando restaurant worker pleaded not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1335,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-361694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}