A homeless veteran cleared in the stabbing death of a teen in a Queens internet cafe said he didn’t even know what he had done until the next day.
Paul Kim said he was so busy fighting for his own life that he didn’t realize he’d stabbed one of the attackers who jumped him April 26 at the 24-hour K&D Internet Cafe in Flushing.
The 51-year-old Kim was living at the cafe before his deadly clash with 19-year-old Yangpu Fan and three other teens about 9:30 p.m.
Kim — with his belongings discreetly placed alongside of him — was watching a bootleg CD of “The Fate of the Furious” when several teenagers tried to bully him into moving so they could sit together and play the online game “League of Legends.”
Kim fought off the trio, who returned a short time later with Fan as backup.
“I couldn’t say nothing but, ‘What? Somebody died?’ ” Kim told the Daily News. “When we finished with the judge, that’s when I asked. ‘Who died?’ That’s when he told me that somebody actually died. Nobody notified of nothing. I was stuck in the 109th Precinct (stationhouse) for 24 hours.”
Cops charged Kim with manslaughter and weapons possession after he slammed a knife into Fan’s chest, but a grand jury refused to indict him on Thursday after reviewing a cafe surveillance video that showed Kim was defending himself.
Kim said he became homeless in July and has had trouble finding work since he was the victim of identity theft.
Kim described his life as one of hardship and bad luck. He said he was born in Korea, where his mother abandoned him when he was 3, and his father vanished two years later.
