Husband shoots his wife while she’s in bed, Alaska officials say. Now he faces prison
An Alaska man faces up to 99 years in prison in connection with the deadly shooting of his wife while she was lying in bed, prosecutors said.
Chue Yang, 37, was found guilty of second-degree murder following a trial, the Alaska Department of Law said in a Feb. 3 news release.
He’s scheduled to be sentenced in May and faces 15 to 99 years in prison.
His attorney declined to comment in a Feb. 5 email to McClatchy News.
Yang is accused of shooting Nancy Xiong in the head in their Anchorage home in November 2019. He’d been drinking before the incident, prosecutors said.
Yang claimed he shot Xiong by accident as he tried to show her how to protect herself with a gun, KTUU reported, citing a court filing.
Prosecutors said Xiong was fearful of Yang and that the two had a violent relationship, the Anchorage Daily News reported in 2019.
This story was originally published February 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM with the headline "Husband shoots his wife while she’s in bed, Alaska officials say. Now he faces prison."
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