A Suffolk Superior Court jury today acquitted a Dorchester man in the fatal stabbing of Tai Yee during an argument over Yee’s former girlfriend last year.

THANH VAN TRUONG (D.O.B. 1/1/55) had been charged with second-degree murder for the June 8, 2010, incident that left Yee with stab wounds to his face, neck, arm, and chest, with the latter injury penetrating his liver.

Suffolk prosecutors sought to prove during the week-long trial that Yee confronted Truong at about 9:30 that night at Truong’s Lyon Street home. The two men argued over disparaging comments Truong had allegedly made about Yee’s former romantic partner. That verbal altercation became physical, prosecutors said, and Truong stabbed Yee with a kitchen knife. Yee died later the same night at Boston Medical Center.
Michael Schultz was the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Attorney Jack Miller represented the defendant.