Matthew Lee looked into the tearful eyes of the son of a man he had murdered. It was Nov. 19, 2019, in a conference room at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Family Justice Center, a year-and-a-half after Mother’s Day, 2018, when the 50-year-old Lee had followed a beloved 87-year-old Lehman College political philosophy professor, Young Kun Kim, into a bank vestibule on the Upper West Side.
Kim withdrew $300 from the ATM, and Lee tried to grab the money. Kim resisted and the two struggled. Lee managed to grab the cash, then pushed Kim to the floor and ran out of the vestibule. READ FULL STORY