The owner of the Chinese restaurant whose delivery man was killed in an alleged dispute over duck sauce says he’s barely staying afloat, struggling to find delivery people – and can’t even s approach the duck sauce now.
“I don’t want to touch it,” Ken Yang, owner of Great Wall in Queens, told The Post on Sunday. “I can’t because it brings back bad memories.”
Yang visibly backed off when a Post photographer asked the owner if he could pose for a photo holding a container of duck sauce.
Yang added that when it comes time to fill the container with duck sauce packets at the front of the restaurant, “My employees do that.”
Yang said he was still shaken by the shooting death of his delivery man Zhiwen Yan, 45, more than a month later.
On Wednesday, alleged shooter Glenn Hirsch, 50, was finally arrested in the gruesome case.
Yang said he had lost business and continued to struggle to find delivery people since the murder.
Hirsch was apparently angry for months about the amount of duck sauce he received in a takeout order and eventually took his anger out on Yan’s hard worker, authorities said.
“We have lost business [after the shooting]. I still lose business. I can’t employ delivery people,” Yang said. “Nobody wants to do it because it’s not safe. They are afraid.
“The community helps me. They come over because I can’t deliver to them. I thank them for that. I need the community to continue supporting my business.
Yang said he was grateful authorities arrested Hirsch, whom he called “very dangerous,” but is still watching his back.
“I need a protection order for me and my employees. It is very important,” he said. “I need the police to do something for our safety. I need them patrolling the area, come on.
“He should go to jail and they shouldn’t let him out,” Yang said of the suspect. “Let it stay there forever. I need my community to be safe.
Yang said he wanted to put up a partition at the front of the restaurant but couldn’t afford it.
“I’m going to put on some glass,” he said, pointing to the counter. “Right now it’s open, it’s not safe. If my employees do something, they don’t look, they don’t see what’s going on.
“I don’t have the money to do it right now, but I need it. It is important for me and my employees to be safe.
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Hirsch bombarded the Great Wall with phone calls and even called 911 for months after becoming angry over the amount of duck sauce he received in a takeout order last year, officials said. authorities.
He was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday and charged with second-degree murder, possession of a weapon, stalking and uttering threats and was sentenced to detention without bond.
Yang vowed to be there for Yan’s family, including his widow and three children.
“I lost my brother,” Yang said, putting her hand on her left chest. “I will remember him for the rest of my life. He will be in my heart forever.
“It changed my life forever.”
Yang said he had not spoken to Yan’s widow, Eva Zhao, since the arrest.
“Right now, she is very sad. I don’t want to talk to him too much,” Yang said. “Talking to her brings everything back to normal, and I don’t want to hurt her any more than she already does.
Zhao waved to a Post reporter who knocked on his door on Sunday.
“We are all relieved that someone has been arrested,” Zhao said in a statement released Thursday through his attorney.
At Hirsch’s apartment building in Briarwood, a neighbor said: ‘I’ve never seen him and hope I never see him.
“He’s locked up now, he’s going to have a trial, and [I] I hope he’s locked away forever so he never comes back here.
The peephole in Hirsch’s apartment was covered with black duct tape.
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