Eric Adams praises NYPD for arrest in killing of Chinese food delivery man

Mayor Adams has no beef with the NYPD’s thirty day period-prolonged wait around to make an arrest in the cold-blooded slaying of a tricky-working Chinese meals supply person that stemmed from a dispute about duck sauce.

“The worst matter you can do is prematurely arrest an individual, get it in a grand jury and have the grand jury condition that you didn’t have adequate evidence,” the retired NYPD captain reported Saturday at an unrelated Brooklyn information convention.

“I acquire my hat off to the thoroughness of people police officers to make confident we had a solid case when we did our apprehension.”

Glenn Hirsch, 50, was picked up on a warrant at his Briarwood apartment on Wednesday and charged with murder, as nicely as prison possession of a loaded firearm in connection to the April 30 slaying of 45-12 months-aged Zhiwen Yan, authorities reported. 

Cops also explained Hirsch was caught on surveillance footage circling the Queens cafe where Yan labored for an hour on the night of the capturing — then seen adhering to Yan in his auto ahead of he allegedly shot him lifeless.

Kai Yang, operator of Great Wall on Queens Boulevard, previously explained to The Write-up that a weird dispute late last year over regardless of whether Hirsch need to get a lot more duck sauce sparked a collection of increasingly disturbing encounters with the suspect, leading up to the slaying of his staff.

“That was a poor person,” Adams mentioned of Hirsch. “What he did to that deliveryman, he really should by no means get out of jail once more. He was a poor guy he was a suggest male. And I’m so delighted that the officers created the right apprehension.”