NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A man from Dyker Heights was handed a 15-year prison sentence Friday for the attempted murder of a work colleague of his ex-wife, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney.
On March 3, 2022, Jianqing Chen ambushed the victim in his driveway, stabbing him in the neck, head, back, face, and arm before fleeing the scene to NYU Langone Hospital. Had the victim's 16-year-old daughter not returned home a few minutes later, he likely would have bled out from his wounds.
Chen, 43, was convicted of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault, among other counts, in a jury trial last month.
“This was a life-altering attack on a completely innocent man who was lucky to be found by his daughter," said District Attorney Eric Gonzalez of the incident.
Chen and his wife had been separated for 4 years after a decade-long marriage that bore two children. In the span of a month last year, from Feb. 1 to March 3, Chen had sent his ex-wife approximately 159 phone calls and 500 text messages, many of which threatened violence against her and those she was close with, the D.A. said.
According to authorities, the victim of the stabbing carpooled with Chen's ex-wife to work and lived just a block away from him. During the assault, Chen cut his own hand, though at NYU Langone he blamed the wound on a knifepoint robbery by two Black men.
After the victim's daughter discovered him bleeding on the driveway, he was taken to a different hospital and treated.
"I am committed to keeping the people of Brooklyn safe from violence," Gonzalez said. "With today’s sentence, the defendant has been found accountable for his actions.”
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