The accused “Duck Sauce Killer” hid eight weapons in his estranged spouse’s condo, her lawyer mentioned Tuesday – and everybody is aware of they had been his as a result of the closet was repulsively messy.
Glenn Hirsch — who allegedly gunned down a Chinese language-food supply man in Queens amid a dispute over duck sauce — wrote in a suicide notice that his spouse Dorothy had no thought he stashed the weapons in her Briarwood condo, in a closet stacked to the ceiling with trash baggage, Ziploc baggage and unopened packages of bathroom paper, a brand new court docket submitting exhibits.
“Wrapped in tin foil and plastic, the firearms had been saved in rubbish baggage and bins constant along with his clustered methodology of storage and inconsistent with Dorothy’s neat method,” lawyer Mark Bederow wrote in a letter to the Queens District Legal professional’s workplace.
“Not surprisingly, Glenn has admitted that he was the unique proprietor of the firearms and that he positioned them within the closet he maintained at Dorothy’s condo with out her information,” mentioned Bederow, who's making an attempt to get associated gun fees in opposition to Dorothy dropped.
Cops had discovered hoarder-like situations in Glenn’s personal condo in Jamaica after his arrest within the April homicide of supply employee Zhiwen Yan – with the accused killer’s fridge full of an obscene quantity of take-out duck-sauce packets and different condiments, sources mentioned.
The suspect, who was out on bail within the slaying, dedicated suicide Friday morning — earlier than a court docket listening to that might have put him again behind bars.
However Dorothy remains to be going through legal weapons possession fees after cops discovered the weapons throughout a June raid of her condo, however she denied understanding husband had saved them there. The couple had lived individually since 2019, however Glenn had entry to the condo and introduced a few of his belongings there after he closed a self-storage unit, he wrote in his “dying declaration” earlier than allegedly taking his personal life.
“I wish to take full duty for the eight weapons recovered from a closet in [Dorothy’s] condo,” Glenn wrote within the notice, a portion of which was quoted within the court docket submitting.
Glenn’s DNA was discovered on at the least one of many weapons, in accordance with the submitting.
“I acquired these firearms a few years in the past and so they remained undisturbed in an outdoor storage facility shared with earlier roommates,” he went on. “Nonetheless, a few years in the past when my spouse bought her new cooperative condo I made a decision to shut the storage unit. It was at the moment I moved these gadgets to my spouse’s condo and positioned them inside a hallway storage closet together with quite a few different unopened baggage and bins.
“She had completely no half in acquiring the firearms nor did she have any information they had been within her residence,” Glenn wrote within the suicide notice, which his spouse’s lawyer needs admitted as proof in her case.
Glenn allegedly despatched the letter to the decide, prosecutors and his spouse’s lawyer by e-mail earlier than he took his personal life Friday. He was discovered lifeless on his sofa carrying rubber gloves with a gun in his hand, a printed copy of the notice at his ft and his radio turned as much as a quantity so loud it might be heard from exterior the door, sources mentioned.
The accused gunman was out on $500,000 bail paid by his brother however feared he would find yourself again in jail over the weapons, his notice mentioned.
Within the notice, Glenn denied killing Yan on April 30 after an ongoing feud sparked over duck sauce with the supply employee and different staff of Nice Wall restaurant in Forest Hills.
Glenn had apparently harassed Yan and different staff on the eatery, vandalized Yan’s automobile and even confirmed up with a gun in January. On the night time of Yan’s homicide, surveillance footage noticed Glenn circling the restaurant in his automobile then following the supply man to a drop-off.
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