Mayor Adams has no beef with the NYPD’s month-extended wait to make an arrest in the chilly-blooded slaying of a tricky-performing Chinese foodstuff supply gentleman that stemmed from a dispute about duck sauce.
“The worst factor you can do is prematurely arrest someone, get it in a grand jury and have the grand jury state that you didn’t have sufficient evidence,” the retired NYPD captain claimed Saturday at an unrelated Brooklyn news conference.
“I just take my hat off to the thoroughness of people law enforcement officers to make certain we had a strong scenario when we did our apprehension.”
Glenn Hirsch, 50, was picked up on a warrant at his Briarwood condominium on Wednesday and charged with murder, as properly as legal possession of a loaded firearm in connection to the April 30 slaying of 45-yr-previous Zhiwen Yan, authorities explained.
Cops also mentioned Hirsch was caught on surveillance footage circling the Queens cafe wherever Yan labored for an hour on the night time of the taking pictures — then observed pursuing Yan in his car in advance of he allegedly shot him dead.
Kai Yang, operator of Great Wall on Queens Boulevard, beforehand advised The Post that a weird dispute late last 12 months above whether or not Hirsch should really get far more duck sauce sparked a sequence of increasingly disturbing encounters with the suspect, main up to the slaying of his staff.
“That was a poor man,” Adams claimed of Hirsch. “What he did to that deliveryman, he ought to by no means get out of jail once again. He was a negative dude he was a signify guy. And I’m so satisfied that the officers made the suitable apprehension.”