A man has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for the 2021 shooting death of Woom Sing Tse, 71, in Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood, according to prosecutors.
Alphonso Joyner, 27, was sentenced to 65 years after being found guilty of murder in October for shooting and killing Woom Sing Tse, 71, in Chinatown in December 2021, according to prosecutors.
The shooting happened on December 7, 2021, at approximately 12:30 p.m., just feet away from an elementary school. The crime shook the Chinatown neighborhood.
According to police, Joyner was driving a car that pulled up to the 200 block of W. 23rd Street. Tse was walking down the sidewalk when Joyner allegedly opened fire from the driver’s seat. According to police, Joyner then got out of the vehicle and shot Tse several times, killing him. According to officials, Joyner shot a ghost gun with an extended magazine at the victim 26 times.
Tse, a valued neighborhood member and previous restaurant owner, was murdered while walking to the store to buy a newspaper.
“He was a man who came to this country just with a few dollars in his pocket and through hard work and a determined spirit, achieved the American dream. Mr. Tse built their home and provided for his family. He was a father, a husband, a grandfather, a man of the community, a Chicagoan,” said Police Superintendent David Brown.
Brown credits the Chinatown neighborhood with Joyner’s fast arrest, which was his fifth. Two of the arrests were for firearm crimes.
Within minutes of the shooting, the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce offered 9th District police with surveillance video, allowing officers to track Joyner’s vehicle to the Kennedy Expressway, where they apprehended him in sluggish traffic. Officials found the handgun in Joyner’s car.
“This senseless act of violence robbed Woom Sing Tse’s family of a beloved and doting grandfather, and it traumatized the entire Chinatown community. While today’s guilty verdict cannot erase the pain and grief of Tse’s loved ones, we hope this outcome provides some comfort in knowing that justice has been served,” Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said.
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