Queens man, 51, charged with murder of Chinese food delivery driver 'after argument with staff over duck sauce' was a hoarder whose refrigerator was filled with the condiment

DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 8 June 2022 | By STEPHEN M. LEPORE

[dennisw]

Glenn Hirsch, 51, was arrested last Wednesday at his home near Briarwood Hirsch is suspected in the deadly shooting of Zhiwen Yan, 45, on April 30, according to a statement from the NYPD

Cops found eight guns while searching Hirsch's wife's home Cops apparently found his refrigerator packed to the gills with sweet and sour duck sauce

'He's a hoarder. And when you open the refrigerator, it's like, condiments — there's duck sauce, soy sauce, ketchup'

The Queens man arrested on suspicion of murdering the longtime delivery driver of a local Chinese restaurant over a dispute about duck sauce apparently had an 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 well as a group of protesters demanding justice for Yan were at the court.

Cops found eight guns while searching the home of Hirsch's wife, who he doesn't live with.

That wasn't quite what they found at Hirsch's home. Cops apparently discovered his refrigerator packed to the gills with sweet and sour duck sauce.

[dennisw]

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Killing of Chinese food deliveryman may have stemmed from duck sauce dispute (Queens, NYC)

05/02/2022 12:38:26 PM PDT · by dennisw · 31 replies

NY POST ^ | May 2, 2022 | By Reuven Fenton, Kevin Sheehan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
He may have been killed in a simmering beef that started over duck sauce. A longtime co-worker of the Chinese food deliveryman fatally shot in Forest Hills on Saturday told The Post that the disgruntled customer wanted for questioning by cops in the slaying first hassled the joint over the amount of duck sauce it gave him. One night late last year, “The customer came in and ordered some food,” recalled Great Wall restaurant worker Soi Chung, 70. “He left with the food but then came back and said, ‘It’s not enough.’ He came to the counter and wanted more...

[dennisw]

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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

[LukeL]

This guy needs to get a new lawyer. What kind of attorney talks to the press about details of the case?

[nickcarraway]

This guy is just preparing for the day when the IMF takes away everyone’s duck sauce.

[Joe 6-pack]

"He may have been killed in a simmering beef that started over duck sauce."

And now he got to do the perp wok.

[Drew68]

Glenn Hirsch (pictured)

Finally, an anti-Asian hate crime we can talk about.

[livius]

The press was asking questions about known facts and the lawyer was stupidly offering defenses or excuses for Hirsch’s behavior. His client clearly is crazy as a loon, one of those freaky, obsessive hoarders that seem to be holed up in half the buildings of NYC, and the lawyer should just keep his mouth shut and go for an insanity defense.

[Telepathic Intruder]

So what happens to the duck sauce?

[Drew68]

I am surprised to learn how expensive these packets are on Amazon. They're about a dime apiece.

So when people grab handfuls of packets that they never use, they're really eating into the profit margin. It's not surprising that many Chinese takeout places are becoming stingy with condiment packets.

[Dr. Sivana]

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 nice part of Queens, a couple of levels above Archie Bunker's house on Hauser.

[ronniesgal]

another mental case with guns. and an enabler wife.

[moovova]

Apparently, NYPD doesn’t have a height requirement to be a cop. (See the fireplug on the right in the picture.)

[bgill]

He’ll never taste duck sauce again.

[moovova]

Our favorite Chinese takeout always included (per meal) 2 soy sauce packets, a duck sauce packet and a hot mustard packet. They recently stopped including the hot mustard. The unused stuff usually went into a door tray in our fridge...along with other restaurant’s packets. Must’ve been a hundred. We recently dumped the whole thing.

[Larry Lucido]

who had worked for The Great Wall Chinese restaurant in Queen for more than a decade, known as the Great Wall

If only I had some way of learning the name of this place.

[Tupelo]

I betcha the media is delivering thank you sacrifices to what never god they worship.
Finally, at long last a white man kills a Chinese man.

Now the lead or front page, above the fold story for the next month will be about the white supremacist lynching an Asian man.

[DCBryan1]

I WANT MY SZECHUAN DIPPING SAUCE!

[Ikeon]

3 take aways

1) One time a caucasian acts like an everyday zulu McDonald's customer and the press loses its mind..

2) Ill bet this wasnt a first time fight with this guy.

3) They should have just told him on the phone " No General Tso's for you!"

[T.B. Yoits]

We need to ban duck sauce because mentally ill people can murder someone over it.

We need background checks for anyone asking for condiments and restrict condiment dispensing to only federally licensed distributors.