By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, April 22, 1992
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A 17-year-old Closter boy on Tuesday became the third Bergen County youth charged in connection with last week’s robbery of a Queens doctor and the shooting of two of his patients, police said.
Hyun Kim of 82 Legion Place was the driver of the getaway car in the robbery, said New York City Police Sgt. Don Costello.
Kim, arrested on a complaint of excessive noise in Fort Lee on Sunday, was charged in a Queens courtroom on Tuesday with first-degree robbery and assault, Costello said. Further details on the Fort Lee incident could not be obtained Tuesday.
James Jhang, 17, of Englewood Cliffs was arrested a week ago across the street from the office of Dr. Moo Young Jun on Sanford Avenue in Queens, moments after he and Seung Kim, 16, of Closter went into the office pretending to be patients, then robbed the doctor, police said.
As the suspects were leaving, a retired police officer and his 20-year-old son were walking in. They crossed paths and the son, Steven Barberisi, was shot by Jhang in the stomach as he opened the office door, police said.
Robert Barberisi, who retired from the police force in 1989, then struggled with Jhang and was shot in the arm, police said. He bit Jhang in the arm, forcing him to drop the gun, which Barberisi picked up and fired, Hardiman said. Seung Kim was hit in the left shoulder and was arrested at the scene.
The third suspect, who was waiting in the car and who police now say is Hyun Kim, fled. Costello said the youths were being held Tuesday in the Queens House of Detention.
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