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Federal trial begins in ambush shooting of slain Durham restaurant owner
One of the five men charged with killing a Durham restaurant owner three years ago went on trial Tuesday on federal charges in the case.
Posted — UpdatedBy Sloane Heffernan, WRAL anchor/reporter
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — One of the five men charged with killing a Durham restaurant owner three years ago went on trial Tuesday on federal charges in the case.
Hong Zheng had just returned home after closing China Wok on South Roxboro Street on April 15, 2018, when he was ambushed by men in the driveway of his home in the 4600 block of Carlton Crossing Drive.
Zheng was gunned down in his car, and his wife, Shirley Chan, was grazed by bullets. Still, she was able to return fire with a gun the family kept on hand to fend off robbery attempts.
Maurice Owen Wiley Jr., Hykeem Deshun Cox, Darryl Bradford, Semaj Maleek Bradley and Charles Winfor Daniels were charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, attempted first-degree burglary and discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle.
All five also face federal charges of attempting to interfere with commerce by robbery and using a gun in a violent crime.
Wiley, 31, is the first of the five to be tried on the federal charges.
Chan and Jade Zheng, the couple's daughter, were in Winston-Salem on Tuesday to testify in the case. So, relatives were in charge of the restaurant.
Jade Zheng talked with WRAL News after she and her mother left court, saying they hope for the best outcome possible from the trial.
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