Kenny Chen’s Killer Gets 18 Years In Jail

The Brooklyn youth who stabbed Kenny Chen to death in 2013 was sentenced to 18 years in jail on Monday.

Peter Sedeno, 21, was found guilty last month of all counts — including manslaughter and gang assault — for killing the teen several blocks from his Bath Beach home.

During the trial, Chen’s friend Danny Wei, 19, testified that on June 9, 2013, Chen tried to prevent him from fighting three men — including Sedeno — who had harassed Wei on the street with racial slurs.

Wei said he followed the men to the Bay Parkway subway station on the D line, where he met up with Chen. Chen talked his buddy out of confronting the youths, and eventually walked home, only to run into Sedeno and his friends in the wee hours of the morning on Benson Avenue and 26th Avenue.

One of Sedeno’s co-defendants testified that group had only meant to beat up and rob Chen, but the attack turned deadly, reports the New York Daily News.

“I’m at a complete, complete loss as to why this decision was made to escalate the assault to a death. This defendant and what he did was vicious and brutal,” said prosecutor Howard Jackson, according to the outlet.

Testimony revealed that Sedeno admitted to killing Chen after the violent encounter.

More than 20 of Chen’s family members and friends attended yesterday’s hearing, some of them weeping in the courtroom.

“They are relieved that the trial and sentencing is over, but expressed surprise that the sentence was so short,” said Chinatown activist Karlin Chan, who was at the hearing.

Sedeno will be eligible for parole in 14 yrs. Chen’s sisters, Sherry and Betty, plan to go before the parole board when the time comes, Chan said.

“Every time we pass that spot, we think of how he suffered,” Chen’s brother-in-law Estefan Nobbe, 32, told the Daily News. “No parent should ever have to identify their child’s corpse.”

Sedeno’s lawyer, Kenneth Yu, pleaded with the judge to give his client a lesser sentence.

“He was 17 years old at the time, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, has no criminal record and we feel he can be rehabilitated,” said Yu, according to the Daily News.