Four Years In Jail, Fines Recommended In Case Of Short Pump Teen Who Murdered Father

A Short Pump teen who was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the brutal murder of his father with a bowling pin in January could face four years in jail and a $2,500 fine if the recommendations of a Henrico County jury are followed. 19-year-old Alan Chang was found guilty of killing his father and, according […]

September 12, 2010; 11:33 PM • by Trevor Dickerson

A Short Pump teen who was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the brutal murder of his father with a bowling pin in January could face four years in jail and a $2,500 fine if the recommendations of a Henrico County jury are followed.

19-year-old Alan Chang was found guilty of killing his father and, according to investigators, tried to cover up the act as a burglary. Chang then testified in March that he fatally struck his father in the head, repeatedly, with a tenpin bowling pin.

On January 15, 2010, Henrico Police were called to the 11800 block of Norwich Place, off Nuckols Road in the Estates of Hampshire subdivision near Wyndham, and found 47-year-old Jian Zhang dead with evidence of blunt-force trauma.

According to testimony, Chang, after arguing throughout the day with his father, became agitated and struck him in the head with the bowling pin when he returned home from a trip to the Post Office. He then told a 911 operator he had found his father’s body following a burglary gone awry. Police executed a search warrant and found the bowling pin, which had been cleaned, in a parked car.

The jury recommended a $2,500 fine in addition to the jail time for what is described as “unlawful wounding” that resulted from using the bowling pin in the commission of the crime.

Chang originally faced first degree murder charges but received the lesser charge of manslaughter and will face between no jail time and fifteen years at his sentencing on December 9.

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