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The victim’s mangled remains were found by a homeless man off a pathway in Kissena Park, near Colden Street and Laburnum Avenue.
By Forum Staff
A jury has found a 28-year old Queens man guilty of murder and other charges in the heinous slashing and stabbing death of a young woman, whose mangled body was found off a pathway in Kissena Corridor Park in October 2015.
District Attorney Brown said, “This was a brutal killing. The crime scene was seeped in blood and the victim’s body mutilated and disemboweled.”
Christopher Sobers, was convicted of second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property following a nearly three-week-long trial.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Deborah Stevens Modica, set sentencing for March 14, 2018, at which time Sobers faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
Trial testimony shows that, the mangled remains of 28-year-old Qing Qing Kiemde was found by a homeless man off a pathway in Kissena Corridor Park, near Colden Street and Laburnum Avenue, on October 11, 2015.
The victim – who lived in Elmhurst, Queens, and worked in a bakery – met the defendant in a group meeting and became romantically involved with him.
The defendant violently slashed and stabbed her to death on or about October 10, 2015, and when Sobers was taken in for questioning by police, he was in possession of the victim’s cell phone. He had removed all the victim’s information from the phone and had input his own data. Kiemde had a very distinctive handbag that she was known to carry her personal belongings in. After she disappeared, the defendant was seen carrying the bag.
