Queens man, 51, charged with murder of delivery driver over duck sauce hoarded the condiment
The Queens man arrested on suspicion of murdering the longtime delivery driver of a neighborhood Chinese restaurant over a dispute about duck sauce apparently had an obsession with the condiment.
Glenn Hirsch, 51, was arrested final Wednesday at his house close to Briarwood and was additionally charged with legal possession of a firearm for the lethal taking pictures of Zhiwen Yan, 45, on April 30, in accordance with an announcement from the NYPD.
Hirsch appeared once more Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday. Both Hirsch’s mom and brother, in addition to a bunch of protesters demanding justice for Yan had been at the courtroom.
Cops discovered eight weapons whereas looking out the house of Hirsch’s spouse, who he would not stay with.
That wasn’t fairly what they discovered at Hirsch’s house. Cops apparently found his fridge packed to the gills with candy and bitter duck sauce.
Glenn Hirsch (pictured), 51, was arrested on Wednesday night time at his house close to Briarwood in Queens for the murder of 45-year-old Zhiwen Yan, who had labored for The Great Wall Chinese restaurant in Queen for greater than a decade, referred to as the Great Wall
At Hirsch’s house, cops apparently discovered his fridge packed to the gills with the Great Wall’s candy and bitter duck sauce
‘His complete fridge was stuffed with duck sauce,’ a police supply advised the New York Daily News. ‘And different condiments.’
‘He’s a hoarder. And while you open the fridge, it is like, condiments – there’s duck sauce, soy sauce, ketchup.’
The supply prompt the piles of condiments at his condo on 141st Street in Jamaica are all a component of what was occurring in Hirsch’s brain to guide him to kill.
‘I suppose in some pathology folks like that take that stuff very critically – you did not give him sufficient duck sauce,’ they mentioned.
Hirsch, who had 9 prior arrests on his file, has pleaded not responsible and his at the moment being held with out bail.
Hirsch has not but been charged with a hate crime in the case, a supply of rivalry for some of the protesters outdoors Queens Supreme Court Tuesday
Both Hirsch’s mom and brother are pictured at Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday
Supporters of Zhiwen Yan, who was allegedly killed by Glenn Hirsch, 51, maintain an illustration outdoors Queens Supreme Court
The marchers held indicators suggesting police did a poor job at defending Yan, in addition to photographs of the sufferer
He has not but been charged with a hate crime in the case, a supply of rivalry for some of the protesters outdoors Queens Supreme Court Tuesday.
The marchers held indicators suggesting police did a poor job at defending Yan, in addition to photographs of the sufferer, in addition to an indication that mentioned: ‘This was a HATE CRIME. Don’t ignore that.’
There had been additionally protests towards gun violence and anti-Asian discrimination.
Yan, a father-of-three who moved to New York from greater than 20 years in the past, was doing delivery-rounds on his scooter in Forest Hills, Queens, cops say, when he was blasted in the chest.
The taking pictures noticed Yan and Hirsch, who was believed to be driving an older mannequin of a Lexus RX3 SV at the time, briefly alternate phrases at a site visitors mild earlier than Yan was hit close to 108th Street and 67th Drive, in what’s normally a quiet and close-knit space.
Zhiwen Yan, 45, (proper) on this undated picture on the day of his wedding ceremony, was making a delivery on his scooter in the Forest Hills neighborhood Queens at round 9:30 pm on April 30, cops say, when he was fatally shot in the chest
The altercation, police say, noticed Yan and the suspect briefly alternate phrases earlier than he was shot as soon as in the chest close to 108th Street and 67th Drive, in what’s normally a quiet, close-knit neighborhood. Cops are pictured at the crime scene, wanting over Yan’s scooter
A witness close by later advised investigators that Hirsch fled the scene. Cops revealed they captured Hirsch on surveillance footage pacing round the restaurant for roughly an hour on the night time of the taking pictures earlier than following Yan.
Hirsch’s lawyer, Michael Horn, advised DailyMail.com {that a} warrant was issued for his arrest after the grand jury’s continuing final Wednesday. However, he added that the Queens District Attorney’s office ‘determined to not honor my skilled courtesy to deliver [Hirsch] in each time as potential, the place’s crucial and so they mainly broke down his door final night time and compelled their option to a scared man who would not know what is going on on.’
Yan, who labored seven days every week and held three jobs to help his household, had been working at the Great Wall restaurant for greater than a decade previous to his demise, 53-year-old worker Kai Yang advised the New York Daily News.
The outlet additional reported that Hirsch has an in depth legal historical past. He was arrested 9 instances between 1995 and 2012, however none of them are disclosed as they’re sealed. One of the arrests is said to Hirsch committing a theft with a gun, police sources advised the Daily News.
Horn mentioned: ‘They’re not related. We know that accusations are meaningless with none judication… The District Attorney is taking what I think about to be a skinny case and making an attempt to place as a lot garnish as potential to make the sandwich look larger.’
Michael Horn, lawyer for Glenn Hirsch, spoke to DailyMail.com outdoors courtroom on Thursday
A restaurant worker, Soi Chung, 70, advised DailyMail.com that Hirsch had ‘a number of’ disputes with employees at the eatery and pulled a gun on staffers throughout one incident in January.
Another incident final year noticed the offended buyer develop into peeved over the quantity of duck sauce given to him in a single of his orders, Chung advised The New York Post, spurring a marketing campaign of harassment, vandalism, and threats from the buyer.
The most brazen risk from the buyer, Chung mentioned, got here earlier this year, when Hirsch menacingly waved a gun at the restaurant employees, spurring them to name 911.
Restaurant proprietor Kai Yang advised the Post that the offended buyer was put to the floor by workers, which included Yan, shortly after he got here inside with the firearm.
Horn mentioned on Thursday: ‘If my shopper had an argument with the supervisor, then why is he having a struggle or assaulted a delivery man who all people appears to love. There was no delivery.’
Police say the incident transpired instantly after Yan – a father-of-three and Forest Hills resident who moved to New York from China greater than 20 years in the past – had dropped off a delivery at a close-by tackle in the normally quiet residential neighborhood
Meanwhile, Yan leaves behind a spouse and three kids, aged two, 12, and 14.
‘This was a father of three kids working three jobs – all meals delivery,’ Yan’s nephew, who recognized himself as Michael, mentioned throughout a presser in April held outdoors the household’s house in neighboring Middle Village.
‘He got here right here in 2001,’ the relative went on. ‘He has been on this nation over 20 years.’
He added: ‘It’s unacceptable that this occurred. This is a really peaceable neighborhood. This by no means occurred, this sort of problem.’
According to a colleague of Yan’s at Great Wall restaurant (pictured), a Hirsch had ‘a number of’ disputes with the Forest Hills eatery, and pulled a gun on staffers throughout an incident final January
Despite Yan’s colleagues’ claims regarding Hirsch’s threatening conduct, it’s at the moment unclear if the delivery man was a selected goal.
A GoFundMe page was created by Kunying Zhao – Yan’s spouse.
‘I’m beginning a fundraiser for my husband as a result of he handed away final night time,’ Zhao wrote on May 1. ‘He was a hardworking delivery man and all the time supplied for his household.’
The web page surpassed its preliminary aim of $100,000, elevating $212,799 as of Wednesday morning.
