(L.A.) Yiyoung Kim, 49, Died at the Hands of Her Husband
Case Number: 2023-02474
Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 49-year-old Korean female that occurred at a residence.
The coroner’s office has identified the woman as Yiyoung Kim. 김이영
Manner of Death: Homicide
Cause of Death: Multiple Sharp-Force Injuries
RIP YI-YOUNG KIM (December 22, 1973 – March 3, 2023)
Formal pronouncement of death was made on Friday at 11:41 p.m.
Local Korean-language media outlets say the decedent was killed by her husband Joseph Chung (51), who also killed their daughter Alisha Chung (8), before killing himself.
The location was the family’s apartment on Denker Avenue in Gardena, a city located in the South Bay region of L.A. County.
Motive for the murder appears to have been economic despair.
The Korean American community has notably high rates of suicides, particularly murder-suicides, in which the patriarch of the family kills his wife and child(ren), then himself.