“The fact is gun violence is an epidemic in our country and it has touched on every corner.” Zhiwen Yan is pictured in this undated photo. “This incident has sent shock waves across our neighborhood, which is considered one of the safest in Queens,” the statement said. In a statement, City Councilwoman Lynn Schulman denounced the slaying. “People are terrified that this could happen in the middle of a relatively safe neighborhood in Queens. Grace Meng, a Queens Democrat, joined several community activists and called the fatal shooting “unnerving.” Yan was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead. “I felt like I had a heart attack when I heard he died. “When I talked to him he was always nice and he laughed,” said Pan, who lived in the same Elmhurst building as Yan until his family moved. “He was super nice and worked so hard,” former neighbor Yang Pan, 20, said of the slain man on Sunday. Witnesses told cops a Lexus was seen fleeing the scene, sources told The Post. He died young.” Witnesses told cops a Lexus was seen fleeing the scene, sources said.
“When he got shot, the police found the bag with the food with our menu inside.” “He still had the order with him,” Sooi Chung, 70, who worked with Yan at the restaurant, told The Post. “We reported him to the police, and he stopped bothering us.”Ī memorial began to grow outside the restaurant, which was closed Sunday, with mourners leaving flowers outside. And one night, in December or January, he pulled a gun on my boss,” Chung said. Sooi Chung, Zhiwen’s co-worker at Great Wall, said that an irate customer had been harassing employees for months. The scooter Yan was riding when he was shot while making a delivery. Yan, of Queens, was found unconscious at the scene after police responded to a 911 call, and rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, according to police.Īccording to a GoFundMe page posted on Sunday for Yan’s three children, the shooting was “a random act of road rage” while he was on a delivery run for Chinese restaurant Great Wall. Zhiwen Yan, 45, was on his scooter when he was shot in the chest Saturday night. Yan Zhiwen and his wife Eva Chao on their wedding day. Yan’s grief-stricken widow, Eva Zhao, burst into tears after coming out from the home - the couple’s young daughter in the doorway behind her. This never happened, this kind of issue.” “It’s unacceptable that this happened,” Michael added. I would like to find out the truth and get justice. I would like to know why this murder took place. “He has been in this country over 20 years. Grace Meng comforts Yan’s wife, Eva Zhao, while a relative holds on to the couple’s daughter in the doorway. NYPD at the scene of the fatal Queens shooting.
“This was a father of three children working three jobs - all food delivery,” the dead man’s nephew, who identified himself as Michael, said outside the family’s home in Middle Village on Sunday. Yan leaves behind a wife and three kids, ages 2, 12 and 14. Zhiwen Yan was shot and killed while making a food delivery in Forest Hills, Queens on April 30, 2022. One witness told police the angry customer drove off from the Forest Hills restaurant in an older model Lexus RX3 SUV after one encounter - the same type of vehicle spotted fleeing the scene of Saturday’s shooting, the sources said. Sources said cops are now eying a 50-year-old customer who has an ongoing beef with staff at Great Wall on Queens Boulevard, allegedly menacing them with a gun in January and twice vandalizing their vehicles. when he was blasted once in the chest and mortally wounded, police said on Sunday. Zhiwen Yan, 45, was on his scooter and making a delivery near 108th Street and 67th Drive in Forest Hills around 9:30 p.m. Woman, 71, killed by stray bullet in NYC, another victim wounded in shooting: copsĨ-year-old was struck by stray bullet moments after getting off NYC school bus: copsĪ hard-working Chinese food delivery man was shot and killed while on the clock in Queens Saturday night - and now cops are probing whether the gunman is a disgruntled customer who had “multiple disputes” with the restaurant over his orders, sources told The Post. Family of NYC teen killed by stray bullet weeps in court as shooter offers terse apologyĬVS store manager killed on the job by shoplifter as epidemic grows increasingly deadly
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