NorCal man convicted of beating elderly woman and burning her alive while she was on Zoom
06/01/2023 12:00 pm PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (TCD) -- A jury convicted a 63-year-old man this week of beating a woman with a baseball bat and lighting her on fire, some of which was caught while she was in a Zoom meeting.
In a statement, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced Min Jian Guan was found guilty of first-degree murder and elder abuse in connection with the 79-year-old woman's death. KTVU-TV identified the victim as Guan's roommate, Yu Quin Sun.
According to the District Attorney's Office, the attack occurred in June 2020 at their residence on the 400 block of 16th Avenue in the city's Richmond District. Sun was reportedly in the middle of a Zoom class, and someone on the call "reported seeing the victim get knocked down and hit."
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins called the killing "horrific and brutal."
Guan has been in custody in the San Francisco County Jail since June 18, 2020.
He faces 25 years to life in prison and will be sentenced June 16.
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