Overview

• Judge Ann Celine O’Hallaren Walsh delivered the guilty verdict Wednesday following a four-day bench trial in September.
• Investigators said Alan Wang kicked 35-year-old Hongyan Yang multiple times after finding messages on her phone on the night of March 7, 2020.
• Emergency crews responded to the couple’s North Mill Street home the next day, and Yang was pronounced dead at a hospital.
• A DuPage County coroner’s autopsy determined she died from blunt-force trauma due to assault, leading prosecutors to upgrade the charge to murder.
• Wang has been held in jail since his bond was raised in July 2020, and a Nov. 12 court date is set for post-trial motions as sentencing has yet to be scheduled.