A man charged with shooting and killing his boss at a U.S.-based, Chinese-language newspaper’s office in Alhambra, California, in 2018 will stand trial March 1.
The jury trial for Zhong Qi Chen, 63, who allegedly murdered Yining Xie, founder and chairman of the U.S.-based Chinese-language newspaper China Press—or Qiao Bao in Chinese—was originally scheduled for this week.
The delay came after Chen and his attorney Donald B. Marks appeared at the Alhambra courthouse Jan. 30, citing Marks’s “scheduling conflicts” as a reason for the delay.
“We hope to be ready on March 1,” Marks told The Epoch Times….