BigZak
05-28-2008, 04:39 PM
I used to eat at this place all the time as it is just off of Rittimin where i used to work...that was a damn sad day as me and my friends knew the people who worked at this restaurant pretty well...
I'm glad this guy is walking the mile soon...warms my heart...
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(http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA052808.execset4saman.en.39fac7e7.html)
The execution date of a 27-year-old man convicted of the March 2002 slayings of three employees of a popular Korean restaurant has been scheduled for October 16.
The brief court appearance this morning was interrupted when Kevin Michael Watts--convicted in 2003 of the killings of Hak Po Kim, 30, the son of the restaurant owner, and two cooks, Yuan Tzu Banks, 52, and Chae Sun Shook, 59, and the sexual assault of Kim's wife--erupted in court, shouting and swearing at District Judge Sid Harle.
"You white folks have been doing this [expletive] for years," he said, before he was removed from the 226th District Courtroom. Family members were also ordered to leave after they, too, began shouting.
Moments later, Watts returned to the courtroom, but the belligerence resumed. Still, Harle spoke over Watts, setting his execution date for October.
A Bexar County jury ordered Watts to death row for the execution-style killings during a holdup involving $100 at the Sam Won Garden restaurant. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction last year.
Evidence at his trial showed that he ordered his victims to their knees at gunpoint before shooting them in the back of the head. A fourth victim, Kim's wife of two months, then was abducted and driven in her husband's SUV to the San Antonio apartment of Watts' mother-in-law, where, court documents said, she was tortured, repeatedly sodomized and forced to ingest narcotics.
Acting on a telephone tip from someone who saw a media report about the slayings and the missing vehicle, police arrested Watts -- but only after he tried to escape by ramming the stolen SUV into two police cars.
Watts, 22 at at the time of the killings, was unemployed and had been in and out of jail for misdemeanor convictions several times since he was teen.
Defense lawyers didn't deny he was responsible for the killings but tried at his trial to show that his behavior was the result of childhood sexual molestation, substance abuse and impaired decision-making capacity. In earlier appeals, his lawyers unsuccessfully argued that the trial judge refused to allow a witness to fully testify about those mitigating circumstances and behavior that led to the slayings.
I'm glad this guy is walking the mile soon...warms my heart...
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link
(http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA052808.execset4saman.en.39fac7e7.html)
The execution date of a 27-year-old man convicted of the March 2002 slayings of three employees of a popular Korean restaurant has been scheduled for October 16.
The brief court appearance this morning was interrupted when Kevin Michael Watts--convicted in 2003 of the killings of Hak Po Kim, 30, the son of the restaurant owner, and two cooks, Yuan Tzu Banks, 52, and Chae Sun Shook, 59, and the sexual assault of Kim's wife--erupted in court, shouting and swearing at District Judge Sid Harle.
"You white folks have been doing this [expletive] for years," he said, before he was removed from the 226th District Courtroom. Family members were also ordered to leave after they, too, began shouting.
Moments later, Watts returned to the courtroom, but the belligerence resumed. Still, Harle spoke over Watts, setting his execution date for October.
A Bexar County jury ordered Watts to death row for the execution-style killings during a holdup involving $100 at the Sam Won Garden restaurant. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction last year.
Evidence at his trial showed that he ordered his victims to their knees at gunpoint before shooting them in the back of the head. A fourth victim, Kim's wife of two months, then was abducted and driven in her husband's SUV to the San Antonio apartment of Watts' mother-in-law, where, court documents said, she was tortured, repeatedly sodomized and forced to ingest narcotics.
Acting on a telephone tip from someone who saw a media report about the slayings and the missing vehicle, police arrested Watts -- but only after he tried to escape by ramming the stolen SUV into two police cars.
Watts, 22 at at the time of the killings, was unemployed and had been in and out of jail for misdemeanor convictions several times since he was teen.
Defense lawyers didn't deny he was responsible for the killings but tried at his trial to show that his behavior was the result of childhood sexual molestation, substance abuse and impaired decision-making capacity. In earlier appeals, his lawyers unsuccessfully argued that the trial judge refused to allow a witness to fully testify about those mitigating circumstances and behavior that led to the slayings.