Naperville man gets 38 years for kicking his wife to death

A Naperville man has been sentenced to 38 years in prison for kicking his wife to death in 2020.

Alan Wang, 62, of the 1100 block of North Mill Street, was convicted in October of first-degree murder in the death of 35-year-old Hongyan Yang.

DuPage County Judge Ann Celine O’Hallaren Walsh pronounced the sentence Tuesday morning.

Yang, 35, died on March 8, 2020. Police officers and paramedics were called to the couple’s home for a report of a woman not breathing. They found Yang in a bedroom.

Assistant state’s attorney Sara Hensley said during the trial that Wang had found texts from another man on his wife’s cellphone. The messages were from a man in China. Yang had recently been to China to have surgery.

According to Hensley, Wang kicked his wife multiple times while they were in bed and while she was on the bedroom floor, and hit her with a hanger.

But a lawyer for Wang said he kicked her to wake her up because he wanted answers. Another of his lawyers questioned Naperville firefighter/paramedics about whether a resuscitation device had been used correctly.

An autopsy determined that Yang died as a result of blunt force trauma due to assault. She sustained deep-tissue hemorrhaging, according to the autopsy.

Wang will have to serve 100% of the sentence before being eligible for parole. He was given credit for the six years he has been in jail awaiting trial and sentencing.