FLUSHING, Queens (PIX11) — A man was arrested in South Korea decades after allegedly stabbing a 22-year-old man to death in a Queens apartment and fleeing the country, authorities said.
Ho “Alex” Shin, 43, was caught in South Korea in December 2025 and extradited to New York City last week in connection with the fatal attack in January 2002, prosecutors said.
Shin allegedly stabbed Hyun Dae Kim, 22, and his friend, Hyun Suk Yu, when he tried to intervene during the attack in a Flushing apartment at around 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2022. Kim died at the hospital, and Yu survived.
Prosecutors said Shin and his co-defendant, a 16-year-old boy, burst into the apartment and stabbed the victims over a perceived slight. `The teen was arrested the same day of the incident.
After the slaying, the defendant allegedly told friends he stabbed someone and needed to get out of town, authorities said.
Shin was apprehended in South Korea on Dec. 8, 2025, and returned to New York City on Thursday, officials said. He was arraigned on Friday and is being held without bail.
“No matter how much time passes, we do not give up on our victims and their families,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.
He has been charged with murder, attempted murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. The teen accomplice was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Shin’s attorney could not be reached immediately.
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