Glenn Hirsch arrested in death of delivery man Zhiwen Yan

The irate consumer who allegedly gunned down a hard-functioning Chinese foodstuff delivery man in a cold-blooded assault in Queens — which stemmed from a dispute about duck sauce that led to a months-extended reign of terror — was busted late Wednesday, cops introduced Thursday. 

Glenn Hirsch, 50, was picked up on a warrant at his Briarwood condominium all-around 8 p.m. Wednesday and charged with murder, as properly as criminal possession of a loaded firearm in link to the April 30 slaying of the 45-year-old Zhiwen Yan, authorities mentioned. 

“While this case appeared straightforward at the onset, due to the fact we did establish the suspect early on, you know producing sufficient evidence to rise to the level of probable trigger took some time to do,” NYPD Lt. John Russo said at a law enforcement briefing on Thursday. 

“Why did it acquire from April 30 right up until now when, at the deal with, it appeared we realized who he was right away?” Russo explained. “Well, you know, we want to assure we get the suitable man or woman and we have a prosecutable circumstance.”

Cops discovered that Hirsch was caught on surveillance footage circling the Queens cafe for an hour on the evening of the taking pictures — then witnessed adhering to Yan in his vehicle just before he allegedly shot him lifeless.

Law enforcement mentioned they discovered eight guns at his estranged wife’s household when they executed a lookup warrant close to 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, they explained.

They claimed Hirsch and his ex had parted approaches amicably — although a neighbor explained Hirsch showed up normally and explained him as “an a–hole.”

“I’ve read him a bunch of periods yelling at her,” mentioned the person, who requested to be identified only as Glenn. “He’s an a–hole. I have just witnessed that man managing her like s–t. He speaks really loud. These partitions are not the thickest walls in the earth.

“I never ever saw bruises on her, but that woman took a good deal of verbal abuse from the male,” he stated. “It tends to make me want to shift.”

“We ended up getting methods to make guaranteed he didn’t flee the region,” Russo reported. 

Hirsch had an ongoing beef with staff members at Fantastic Wall on Queens Boulevard – bombarding the restaurant with cell phone calls and even calling 911 on them – when he took his anger out on Yan, police stated.

Police said a grand jury voted to indict Hirsch on Wednesday.

He was arraigned Thursday in Queens Supreme Court and billed with second-diploma murder, weapons possession, stalking and menacing and purchased held without bail.

“As alleged, a petty dispute above a choose-out buy grew to become an obsessive position of competition for the defendant, who began to stalk and harass workforce at the restaurant for months,” Queens DA Melinda Katz said in a statement.

“The tragic conclude end result was the murder of a hard-doing the job personnel who left powering a devastated spouse and children and a grieving neighborhood,” Katz reported. “Gun violence is under no circumstances the response and will not be tolerated in Queens County.”

Yan, a married father of three who migrated from China about 20 several years back, was creating a delivery on his scooter in close proximity to 108th Avenue and 67th Travel in Forest Hills all around 9:30 p.m. when Hirsch allegedly shot him at the time in the upper body.

“We are all relieved that anyone has been arrested,” Yan’s heartbroken widow, Eva Zhao, said in a statement introduced Thursday by way of her lawyer.

“We are grateful to the NYPD and have total self confidence that the Queens District Legal professional will carry justice to Zhiwen, a loving and form spouse, father, son, buddy and neighborhood member,” the assertion stated.

Hirsch was in his car when he spotted Yan and followed him to a halt light-weight – the place he acquired out of his trip and opened fire, authorities explained. 

He had just dropped off an get in the neighborhood when he was killed.

Restaurant owner Kai Yang told The Post that Hirsch experienced earlier been in a rage around the amount of money of duck sauce he bought with an get on Nov. 30.

Hirsch demanded his funds back again, but a employee refused and the accused killer named law enforcement — who informed him the restaurant could not get the foodstuff because of COVID restrictions at the time, prosecutors mentioned. 

Hirsch stormed out and allegedly started his reign of terror.

The duck-sauce dispute sparked a sequence of more and more disturbing encounters – like 1 in which the angry purchaser slashed Yang’s tires and pointed a gun at him when confronted, the proprietor stated. 

Yang claimed the crazed shopper was wrestled to the ground by employees — including Zhiwen Yan — through the gun incident.

“How’s your automobile?” Hirsch reportedly explained to restaurant staff, prosecutors explained. “Remember me? I will eliminate your complete family members.”

But in spite of repeated phone calls to police around time about the indignant client, the patron was never ever billed, Yang reported. 

At a candlelight vigil, the slain supply man’s spouse named for justice. 

“New York Town, you owe me a lifetime … you owe me a partner … you owe an explanation to the Chinese community,” Kunying Zhao claimed by an interpreter.

“I want to know why due to the fact very last November his manager and colleagues have been threatened various situations and nobody could defend them. I want to know why!”

Queens prosecutors claimed Hirsch faces a jail sentence of up to 44-decades-to-existence if convicted on the indictment.

Supplemental reporting by Haley Brown and Amanda Woods