Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Man pleads not guilty to strangling nursing student


Kate Sue Yi, 20, was found strangled to death in her Long Beach apartment.

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

A Mission Viejo man accused of strangling a nursing student to death in Long Beach pleaded not guilty to murder charges Monday.

John Huynh, 20, who attended Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, was charged with the murder of his girlfriend April 7. He is being held in lieu of $1 million.

Kate Sue Yi, 20, was found dead by her roommate inside their Long Beach apartment just a short distance from the Cal State Long Beach campus, where she was a nursing student. An autopsy revealed she had been strangled to death.

Huynh was arrested by police April 4, the day after Yi's body was found.

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