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Mayor Adams has no beef with the NYPD’s month-long wait to make an arrest within the cold-blooded slaying of a hard-working Chinese food delivery man that stemmed from a dispute about duck sauce.
“The worst factor you are able to do is prematurely arrest somebody, get it in a grand jury and have the grand jury state that you just didn’t have sufficient proof,” the retired NYPD captain mentioned Saturday at an unrelated Brooklyn information convention.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks throughout the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
“I take my hat off to the thoroughness of these law enforcement officials to ensure we had a stable case after we did our apprehension.”
Glenn Hirsch, 50, was picked up on a warrant at his Briarwood house on Wednesday and charged with homicide, in addition to legal possession of a loaded firearm in connection to the April 30 slaying of 45-year-old Zhiwen Yan, authorities mentioned.
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Cops additionally mentioned Hirsch was caught on surveillance footage circling the Queens restaurant the place Yan labored for an hour on the evening of the taking pictures — then seen following Yan in his automotive earlier than he allegedly shot him useless.
Kai Yang, proprietor of Great Wall on Queens Boulevard, beforehand informed The Post {that a} weird dispute late final 12 months over whether or not Hirsch ought to get extra duck sauce sparked a sequence of more and more disturbing encounters with the suspect, main as much as the slaying of his worker.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks throughout a information convention within the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
“That was a nasty man,” Adams mentioned of Hirsch. “What he did to that deliveryman, he ought to by no means get out of jail once more. He was a nasty man; he was a imply man. And I’m so pleased that the officers made the right apprehension.”
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