Former NYPD officer receives 27 years in prison for shooting his ex-girlfriend and killing his new lover in a bloody three-way robbery: “Cold-blooded monster”

A former New York Police Department officer who shot and killed her ex-girlfriend and gunned down her new lover was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Wednesday – while the murdered victim's father called the killer a “cold-blooded monster” who should be locked up forever.

Yvonne Wu, 34, was arrested two months after she admitted to shooting and wounding 34-year-old Jenny Li with her service weapon during a fit of jealousy on October 13, 2021, and killing her ex's new boyfriend, 24-year-old Jamie Liang.

“Jamie was funny, kind, a ray of sunshine. I have never felt so much grief and am overwhelmed by the fact that she is never coming back,” Li said tearfully in Brooklyn Supreme Court before Judge Danny Chun imposed the sentence.

Wu had faced a life sentence, but he took a plea deal that reduced the charge from murder to manslaughter and attempted murder, making that sentence no longer an option.

But Liang's father, Ying Cai Liang, said the “evil man” who took his daughter's life “should be locked up forever.”

“This monster didn't just take Jamie's life – she took a part of us too,” the devastated father said in a scathing victim impact statement. “She took our pride, our hope and our joy. She has left permanent scars on our hearts; our lives will never be the same.”

“Jamie was only 24 years old. She had her whole life ahead of her,” he continued. “This cold-blooded monster took our little girl, our little angel. The killer is a police officer who is supposed to protect and serve.”

“This evil man does not deserve to be free,” Liang added, saying his daughter would be completing her dental degree at NYU by now – if she were still alive.

Wu, who was suspended without pay from the NYPD and fired in June, broke down in tears as she tried to apologize to the family whose daughter she stole in her bloodthirsty frenzy.

“I'm sorry for everyone affected by this, especially Jenny,” Wu said before learning her fate. “I'm so sorry, you'll never forgive me. I'm sorry.”

But her apology fell on deaf ears.

“The decision that was made that day was extremely selfish and hurt many people in ways that words cannot describe,” Li said in court. “My health will never be the same, and Jamie, someone who had his whole life ahead of him … was taken from me.”

“We will continue to remember her,” Li continued, “and I hope that the court and the judge took into account the deep emotional scars we all still suffer, even if there is no time frame that would justify the defendants' actions.”

Chun said the court accepted Wu's agreement because it spared the family the pain of a trial.

“Although the defendant no longer faces life imprisonment, the court did not consider that a settlement would be so inappropriate that it would not reject it,” the judge said.

Prosecutors said the five-year-old officer from the 72nd^and The Sunset Park precinct waited for hours outside Li's Brooklyn home until her ex – who she had been with for two years – showed up arm in arm with a new lover.

The off-duty Staten Island police officer entered the Bensonhurst home, drew her service weapon and fired, killing Liang and wounding Li, police said. She then waited at the scene and coolly confessed to the shooting when police arrived.

The couple had just separated three weeks before the murder, sources said at the time.

“Her actions … were an act of cruel rage that took the life of a young woman and left Jenny scarred and scarred for the rest of her life,” Jessica Cepriano, senior investigative counsel for the Attorney General's Office who prosecuted the case, said at the verdict.

“Their actions have also shaken the trust and confidence the community should have in the honorable members of law enforcement who work hard to protect us.”