Lisa Cassidy/Daily News Staff
Kim Yong Sik, of South Korea, is arraigned in Framingham District Court for attempted murder.
By Norman Miller/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News
Posted Apr 23, 2008 @ 12:47 AM
FRAMINGHAM —
Hours after he finished the Boston Marathon, a South Korean man tried to kill his wife in the parking lot of a Rte. 9 hotel, police said.
Kim Yong Sik, 41, was arrested at 11:58 p.m. Monday at the Sheraton Framingham after hotel security stopped him from strangling his wife in the parking lot, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said.
The motive for the attack is unknown. Neither Sik nor his wife speak English. A man who was with them acted as an interpreter for police, but investigators did not know if he was translating accurately, the lieutenant said.
Hotel security called the police and reported the assault, describing a man standing over and screaming at a woman on the ground.
"He grabbed her arm and started pulling up while stepping on her throat, choking her," said Shastany. "A witness stopped (Sik), but he continued yelling at his wife on the ground, and then began kicking her."
The woman got up and ran away and Sik returned to the hotel lobby and tried to return to his room, but a security guard stopped him.
Sik, speaking through an interpreter, told police he had come from Ulsan, South Korea, with a tour group and ran the Boston Marathon that day, Shastany said. According to the BAA Web site, Sik finished the race in 5:28:20.
He told police he was scheduled to leave for New York yesterday and then return to South Korea.
Police found Sik's wife hiding next to a building down the street. When questioned, through the same interpreter, she said she did not want her husband arrested.
"The officer felt the translator wasn't telling her what he (Sik) was saying," said Shastany. "She had bruises on her mouth and he (Sik) was arrested."
Sik was charged with attempted murder and domestic assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Yesterday, at Sik's Framingham District Court arraignment, prosecutor Dave Clayton asked Judge Robert Greco to set Sik's bail at $10,000.
"It is pretty clear this defendant has no ties to this community whatsoever," Clayton said. "Anything short of a high cash bail will fail to keep him from leaving." The court did not take his passport.
Sik's lawyer, Yeon Kim, did not contest the bail amount. He said he expected his client to post it yesterday.
Sik, whose wife and two other supporters were in court, instructed his lawyer not to speak to the media, and Kim said he could not comment.
Sik is due back in court on June 12 for a pretrial conference.
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