DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A 1982 shooting that left a 25-year-old man paralyzed has been reclassified as a homicide, after the victim died more than three decades after the incident, according to officials.
Billy Yee was found in a car at the corner of Sands Street and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway on June 14, 1982, with gunshot wounds to the upper torso, the NYPD said.
He was taken to Cumberland Hospital in critical, but stable condition and survived, but was left paralyzed following the shooting, according to police and prosecutors.
Yee died at 59 on Oct. 2 of this year due to complications related to the shooting, police said. On Thursday, the medical examiner’s office ruled his death a homicide, but the circumstances of his death were not immediately released.
Police arrested Stanley Cho, 25, in connection with the shooting in July of 1982. He was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, and arraigned. The outcome of his case was not immediately available from the DA's office.
Prosecutors said they are in the preliminary stages of the investigation and do not yet know if he would face renewed charges following Yee's death.
