Wednesday 8 June 2022 05:31 AM Queens man, 51, charged with murder of delivery driver over duck sauce hoarded ... trends now
The Queens man arrested on suspicion of murdering the longtime delivery driver of a local Chinese restaurant over a dispute about duck sauce apparently held a creepy obsession with the condiment.
Glenn Hirsch, 51, was arrested last Wednesday at his home near Briarwood and was also charged with criminal possession of a firearm for the deadly shooting of Zhiwen Yan, 45, on April 30, according to a statement from the NYPD.
Hirsch appeared again Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday. Both Hirsch's mother and brother, as a group of protesters demanding justice for Yan were at the scene.
Cops found eight guns while searching Hirsch's wife's home, with who he doesn't live with.
That wasn't quite what they found at Hirsch's home, as cops allegedly found his entire refrigerator stocked to the gills with sweet and sour duck sauce while attempting to locate more guns.
Glenn Hirsch (pictured), 51, was arrested on Wednesday night at his home near Briarwood in Queens for the murder of 45-year-old Zhiwen Yan, who had worked for The Great Wall Chinese restaurant in Queen for more than a decade, known as the Great Wall
At Hirsch's home, cops allegedly found his entire refrigerator stocked to the gills with the Great Wall's sweet and sour duck sauce
'His whole refrigerator was filled with duck sauce,' a source told the New York Daily News. 'And other condiments.'
'He's a hoarder. And when you open the refrigerator, it's like, condiments - there's duck sauce, soy sauce, ketchup.'
The source suggested the piles of condiments at his apartment on 141st Street in Jamaica are all a part of what was going on in Hirsch's brain to lead him to kill.
'I guess in some pathology people like that take that stuff very seriously - you didn't give him enough duck sauce,' they said.
Hirsch, who had nine prior arrests on his record, has pleaded not guilty and his currently being held without bail.
Hirsch has not yet been charged with a hate crime in the case, a source of contention for some of the protesters outside Queens Supreme Court Tuesday
Both Hirsch's mother and brother, as a group of protesters demanding justice for Yan were at the scene at Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday
Supporters of Zhiwen Yan, who was allegedly killed by Glenn Hirsch, 51, hold a demonstration outside Queens Supreme Court
The marchers held. signs suggesting police did a poor job at protecting Yan, as well as photos of the victim
He has not yet been charged with a hate crime in the case, a source of contention for some of the protesters outside Queens Supreme Court Tuesday.
The marchers held. signs suggesting police did a poor job at protecting Yan, as well as photos of the victim, as well as a sign that said: 'This was a HATE CRIME. Don't ignore that.'
There were also protests against gun violence and anti-Asian discrimination.
Yan, a father-of-three who moved to New York from more than two decades ago, was doing delivery-rounds on his scooter in Forest Hills, Queens, cops say, when he was blasted in the chest.
The shooting saw Yan and Hirsch, who was believed to be driving an older model of a Lexus RX3 SV at the time, briefly exchange words at a traffic light before Yan was hit near 108th Street and 67th Drive, in what is usually a quiet and close-knit area.
Zhiwen Yan, 45, (right) in this undated image on the day of his wedding, was making a delivery on his scooter in the Forest Hills neighborhood Queens at around 9:30 pm on April 30, cops say, when he was fatally shot in the chest
