Chicago Tribune - July 11, 2017
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Chicago Tribune - July 10, 2017
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Supporters of an imprisoned Chicago man made an impassioned plea Tuesday for clemency, arguing Andrew Suh has earned a second chance at life despite fatally shooting his sister's boyfriend in an infamous 1993 slaying.
The petition for executive clemency is one of nearly 130 requests the Illinois Prisoner Review Board will hear over three days during hearings in the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. |
It was 23 years ago that Andrew Suh fatally shot his sister’s boyfriend, ending the life of a man who helped raise him while forever altering his own.
At the time, the then 19-year-old Chicago man was the last great hope of an immigrant Korean family with Old World values and a pained history. Suh lost both his parents at a young age but excelled academically and was attending the lauded Providence College in Rhode Island on full scholarship. |
Santa Monica Daily Press - July 7, 2017
At age two, Andrew Suh came to the U.S. with his family in their quest for the American dream. Today, he’s highly intelligent, self-deprecatingly funny and charming. However, at 43, Andrew has spent more than half of his life in prison.
Andrew had been an honor student. In high school, he was class president for three straight years, student body president in his senior year and on scholarship at the prestigious Providence College in Rhode Island. |
Santa Monica Daily Press - April 22, 2016
Andrew’s childhood began with such hope. When he was two, the Suhs immigrated from Seoul, South Korea to Chicago. Being male, Andrew was the golden child while his older sister, Catherine, was slighted. As a highly attractive teenager, Catherine rebelled and quickly learned to manipulate men. Her “old world” father, Ronald, a former military officer, considered her promiscuous. To save the “family’s honor,” he poured gas over them to set the two on fire. (Thankfully, her mother, Elizabeth, interceded but the dye was cast.)
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