Dorothy Hirsch, nurse wife of the man accused of revenge killing a Chinese food delivery man in Queens, was arrested after the New York police found eight weapons and hundreds of ammunition in his home in that county.
The woman aged 62 was charged with possession of weapons after that the NYPD raid the residence on 84th Road where she lives separated from her husband Glenn Hirsch, the alleged murderer of the delivery man Chinese Zhiwen Yan, in alleged revenge for an order of duck sauce, in the past 30 April.
Now the police have recovered eight weapons hidden in the house along with more than 200 rounds of ammunition. Some of the weapons were loaded, court records show, reported Daily News.
A 9mm caliber semi-automatic pistol with a magazine containing nine cartridges and a revolver caliber 38 with 10 cartridges were found in a box in a closet, while a second revolver caliber 9 mm and caliber .45 were found in a bag in the same closet, records show.
Meanwhile, two revolvers caliber .38 Y .357, and two 9 mm caliber pistols and .28 were found in a black zipper bag, along with the rest of the ammunition.
Dorothy Hirsch’s attorney, Mark Bederow, said she is “adamant” about her innocence and plan a defense to energetic. “She herself was initially held on a bond of $150,000 Dollars. (She is) a registered nurse who was never arrested, who maintains a separate residence” from her accused husband, she said. “She is not going to be used as a pawn in a case against him.”
Attorney Bederow suggested that Glenn Hirsch hid the guns in his wife’s house without her knowledge. “In order to be found guilty, it must be shown that you knowingly possess the firearms,” she said.
Prosecutor Karen Ross said Monday that DNA was found on two of the weapons and that Glenn Hirsch agreed to a request to be tested to see if the genetic evidence matches his own.
Authorities say that Glenn Hirsch, aged 51, fired and killed Yan on April 30 after following him on a delivery run from the “Great Wall” restaurant on Queens Blvd. where he worked.
Hirsch was arrested June 2, pleaded “not guilty” and was released yesterday on $( bail ,10 Dollars. According to detectives, the violence apparently began to brew on 30 November when he got upset that he didn’t get extra duck sauce with his Chinese takeout order.
He had been harassing Yan and the rest of staff at the Queens Blvd. restaurant for weeks before the shooting, according to witnesses.
Yan, father of 45 years old, was shot last night 30 April, while driving his scooter near 108th St. and 67th Drive on the way to a delivery in Forest Hills. A witness told police the delivery man was shot by the driver of a Lexus SUV who then sped away from the crime scene.
The man was shot in the chest and fell off the scooter. Paramedics took him to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he died. He left behind a widow and three orphaned children. He also had two other jobs to support his family.
The victim worked for more than a decade at “Great Wall”, a restaurant on Northern Boulevard whose manager, Kai Yang (53), alerted the NYPD to a problem customer who was driving the same type of vehicle and with whom they had had problems in November and January. Police quickly zeroed in on Hirsch, but it took weeks to gather enough evidence to charge him.