Long Island Gunman's Body Identified

John Mitty Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Last week, businessman Sang Ho Kim of Queens walked into the offices of Savenergy, a light fixture company in Garden City, and shot Zachariah Yong Jae Shin and John Choi.  The shooting took place near the Roosevelt Field Mall on September 26^th.  Choi survived the shooting.  Shin did not.  Kim was a vendor who worked for Savenergy.  Nassau County Police Chief Steven Skrynecki believed that the shooting may have concerned a business deal that went south. 

After the shooting, neighborhoods in the area were on high alert.  Officers asked shoppers at the Roosevelt Field Mall to remain where they were or to stay in their vehicles and not come into the mall.  Some news outlets mistakenly referred to the shootout as the “Roosevelt Field Mall shooting,” but the shooting did not actually take place inside the mall.  The communities of Garden City and East Williston waited tensely while officers searched for Kim, but it was days before they found the body in the Hudson River near Bear Mountain Bridge, about 11 miles away from his empty car.  At this point, authorities believe that Kim’s death was a suicide, but nothing has been confirmed by the autopsy yet.  Zachariah Yong Jae Shin’s funeral was held in Queens on Monday, where he was remembered by friends, family and co-workers, who said that he was a “very kind man, very polite.”

jmitty@longislandyellowpages.com

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