A forty five-year-old lady who killed her spouse with a sword throughout an argument has been sentenced to 37 years to life in jail.
The Los Angeles Times studies that on Oct. 28, Weichien Huang was convicted of the homicide of her 47-year-old spouse Chen Chen Fei, and the tried homicide of Fei’s mom throughout a vicious assault on July 18, 2024.
In addition to first-degree homicide and tried homicide, Weichien was additionally convicted of corporal damage on a partner and destroying or damaging a cellphone to forestall notifying police to search assist.
Those counts got here from an incident that occurred a little bit over a yr prior to the killing when Weichien threw a cellphone at Fei’s face throughout an argument. Then, Weichien allegedly broke it by throwing it on the bottom when her spouse declared that she’d name 911.
On the day of the homicide, prosecutors alleged that the couple had been arguing about getting divorced when Weichien picked up the katana that they saved of their home and stabbed her spouse with it 13 occasions, killing her.
When Fei’s mom, Hsi Wei Huang, entered the room and found her daughter, Weichen swung the katana at her a number of occasions — main to Huang grabbing it by the blade and fleeing the house with it.
When authorized authorities arrived on the couple’s house, they found Fei, who was already useless, and Weichien, who had tried to finish her personal life.
During Weichien’s sentencing, Huang referred to as into the courtroom from Taiwan and supplied an announcement by way of a Mandarin interpreter, saying that her daughter-in-law “was using the sword trying to suck as much blood from people like a vampire.”
“She was enjoying [seeing] the blood coming out,” stated Huang. “There was no regret at all, acting like a vampire. Trying to kill us all. She doesn’t show any regret at all.”