According to recent court filings, the infamous “duck sauce murderer” was a hoarder who stuffed his residence with hundreds of boxes, garbage bags, and papers.
Glenn Hirsch, 51, of Jamaica, Queens, committed himself earlier this month before appearing in court after being released on free on a $500,000 bond.
He was accused of shooting father-of-three Zhiwen Yan in the chest as Yan completed deliveries for a Chinese restaurant in Forest Hills while riding his scooter.
Hirsch is charged with shooting Yan before fleeing the scene on April 30. Hirsch was said to have had several altercations with the eatery about duck sauce and other condiments.
Cardboard boxes are stacked to the roof in his modest flat, where he lived alone, according to new photos provided to the court.
Stacks of old newspapers, CDs, plastic document boxes, and garbage bags covered whole rooms.
His whole refrigerator reportedly had sweet and sour duck sauce, and the remainder of the flat was said to be entirely packed with additional trash, according to prior reports from sources.
Before his death, his wife Dorothy, 62, was also detained when police discovered guns hidden in a cupboard in her New York City residence wrapped in aluminium foil.
In a letter to the court today, Hirsch’s lawyer Mark Bederow asserts that the fresh images of Hirsch’s apartment demonstrate that his wife would not have been aware of the eight weapons in her residence.
He asserts that the way the firearms were kept in Dorothy’s apartment and Hirsch’s “unique technique of hoarding” at his own residence are the same.
According to the court statement, “These images reveal that Glenn stockpiled his belongings in huge black garbage bags and cardboard boxes, which he then piled on top of one other, exactly as he did when he kept them in his closed-off apartment at Dorothy.”
Fundamental justice demands that you provide the grand jury with proof that Glenn kept his belongings in the same way that the guns were found in the closet he kept at Dorothy’s apartment.
Glenn’s distinct hoarding style and exclusive usage of a closet he had direct access to are crucial to the grand jury’s central inquiry.
“Whether Dorothy knew that Glenn’s belongings were in a closet with multiple weapons that were wrapped in plastic and tinfoil, put inside large black trash bags, and stacked haphazardly on top of one another in the closet.”
Hirsch also made an effort to clear his wife by claiming ownership of the guns in a suicide note.
In the long message, which was also left in his flat by the police who found him, he addressed it to his attorneys, prosecutors, and other parties involved in the case.
Prior to Friday’s hearing, Hirsch expressed concern that he might be sent back to jail on more firearms charges, stating that he didn’t want to spend years in a cell or defend himself from a cell.
In part provided to the court, his “dying statement” stated: “I want to assume full responsibility for the eight firearms found in a cupboard in Dorothy’s residence.”
I purchased these weapons many years ago, and they have been safely stored outdoors in a space that I formerly shared with roommates.
However, my wife bought her own cooperative unit a few years ago.
I made the decision to lock the storage container.
At that point, I took those things into my wife’s apartment and stored them there among a large number of other untouched bags and boxes.
“She had absolutely no involvement in the acquisition of the guns and had no idea that they were inside her home.”
According to Dorothy’s counsel, the charges being dismissed at this point is only fair.
He said that Dorothy Hirsch, a certified nurse, had not resided with Glenn Hirsch for many years.
When addressing DailyMail.com He mentions his wife’s innocence in his suicide letter, according to Mark Bederow.
“The issue is that considering that these offences included weapons and occurred in glens, it is absurd that Dorothy was charged in the first place.”
‘At the time he wrote this, he was under investigation for murder. To pursue the case against her in light of his suicide, the discovery of a second gun in his apartment, and his astonishing admission that the weapons belonged to him alone and that Dorothy had no role in their acquisition.
He fully clears her of all charges and explains why she is innocent. It is immoral to pursue the case against her under these circumstances. In his message, he explains why the firearms were there and why she approved of his keeping them there.
She had been kind by letting him store his belongings there. She wasn’t going to go through the boxes of garbage to discover what was inside since “no sensible person” would do that.
Eight firearms and ammo were taken from Hirsch’s Briarwood house during the raid, according to officials.
According to police records, the couple has separate residences, while Glenn resides in neighbouring Jamaica.
In papers, the District Attorney’s office admits that her spouse had access to her flat.
Hirsch’s belongings were found in a closet that he used, including the firearms, which were hidden in boxes and waste bags.
Before Yan was shot around 108th Street and 67th Drive, Hirsch, who is thought to have been driving an earlier model Lexus RX3 SV at the time, had a few words with Yan at a stoplight, according to the police.
Cops found Hirsch’s refrigerator stocked with sweet and sour duck sauce at his Briarwood residence.
According to a police source who spoke to the New York Daily News, “His whole refrigerator was packed with duck sauce.” “And other sauces.”
He hoards things. And when you open the refrigerator, you see condiments like ketchup, soy sauce, and duck sauce.
The insider said Hirsch’s flat on 141st Street was filled with stacks of condiments, which may have contributed to his decision to murder.
You didn’t offer him enough duck sauce, they said, “I think in some way guys like him take such things extremely seriously.”
Melinda Katz, the district attorney for Queens, said in a statement: “The loss of a human life is always heartbreaking.
Naturally, we would have liked to have Mr. Glenn Hirsch tried in a court of law for the deliberate killing of Mr. Zhiwen Yan, but this is no longer an option.
We once again offer our sincere sympathies to Mr. Zhiwen Yan’s family and friends, who are still mourning his unfortunate and needless passing.