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发帖数: 7881 | 1 Jealous butcher ‘killed mom, 4 kids because they had too much’
By Jamie Schram, Larry Celona, Kirstan Conley and Bruce GoldingOctober 27,
2013 | 12:32pm
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Jealous butcher ‘killed mom, 4 kids because they had too much’
Ming Dong Chen is escorted to central booking after the alleged murder of a
family, including two young boys (inset).
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An illegal Chinese immigrant, bitter over his failure to achieve the
American dream, repaid his cousin’s kindness by butchering the man’s wife
and four young children, cops said Sunday.
Mingdong Chen, 25, showed no remorse when he confessed to slaughtering the
family that allowed him to live in their Brooklyn apartment and admitted
that he committed the atrocity because he envied their way of life, a police
source told The Post.
“The family had too much,” the source quoted Chen as saying.
“He meant that the family had better income and a better lifestyle than him
. . . He was jealous and just killed them.”
NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks III said Chen had cited his inability
to make it in America as his motive for the slayings, which apparently took
place while the victim’s husband Yi Lin Zhuo was at work.
“Everyone here is doing better than me,” Banks quoted the suspect as
saying during a confession in Mandarin Chinese, the only language Chen
speaks.
A family friend said slain mom Qiao Zhen Li had tried to boot Chen out of
her family’s Sunset Park home.
“She told him, ‘You just leave my house,’ ” said Xiao Wei Yang, 31.
“She was never thinking he’d use the knife to cut and kill everyone .&#
8201;. . She was just helping him, and he just killed her whole family
.”
Yang learned of the attempted eviction from a cousin of Li’s who had
visited the apartment shortly before Chen’s alleged Saturday-night rampage.
“My friend went to visit her cousin a couple hours before it happened,”
Yang said. “She left, so she just said thanks to God.”
About three minutes before cops and ambulances arrived, a neighbor, who
asked not to be identified, heard a woman in the house screaming “Help!
Help! Help! Help!’’ in the Chinese dialect of Fukinese.
Sources said Chen, who came here illegally from China and worked as a cook,
used a butcher knife to slash and stab Li in the face — lopping off several
of her fingers when she tried desperately to protect herself.
Cops found Li, 37, in the kitchen with her son Kevin Zhuo, 5. Both were
alive but died a short time later at hospitals. The other children —
William Zhuo, 1, Amy Zhuo, 7, and Linda Zhuo, 9 — were found slain in a
rear bedroom.
Two of the kids, including the baby, had been decapitated, and there was a
trail of blood throughout the house, sources said.
“It’s just a scene you’ll never forget, I’ll just leave it at that,”
Banks said.
Li’s husband — who arrived home after his family was massacred — appeared
dazed when he stepped out of the 66th Precinct station house to talk on his
cellphone Sunday.
He walked slowly and ignored questions from reporters before cops escorted
him back inside, then took him away out a rear entrance.
A man who accompanied him to the station house, Peolouen Chang, said the
husband had emigrated from the coastal Fujian province in China before any
of his children were born.
Zhuo enters the 66th Precinct station house in Brooklyn Sunday to speak to
police about the killing of his wife and four kids, including 1-year-old
William Zhuo and 5-year-old Kevin Zhuo.
Banks said the nightmare scene was discovered by Zhuo’s sister and brother-
in-law, who went to the 57th Street apartment after Li tried to call her
husband to tell him Chen was “acting suspicious.”
When she couldn’t reach her husband, Li called her mother-in-law in China,
who also couldn’t reach him and contacted Zhuo’s sister who lives nearby,
Banks said.
The sister and her husband banged on the door until Chen finally opened it
and they saw him “covered in blood.”
They then called 911, and two detectives who happened to be investigating a
robbery pattern nearby raced to the scene.
The detectives, William Greer and Giovanni Talavera, nabbed Chen as he tried
to escape out the front door at about 10:45 p.m., still carrying the bloody
knife, a source said.
“If those detectives hadn’t been in the area, he could have gotten away
with it,” the source said.
“It’s very hard to track a suspect with no criminal history. And this
suspect was a drifter, a nomad. It would have been very hard.”
A neighbor Amy Chang, 15, said she ran outside when she heard sirens, and
saw EMTs struggling in vain to save one of the children .
“He was wearing yellow pajamas,” she recalled. “He was bloody. They were
trying to help him. But he wasn’t moving. He had bandages on his legs. “To
kill a kid, it’s the worst.”
Chen also allegedly attacked two cops while he was being questioned in the
66th Precinct station house.
A source said that while one of his hands was cuffed to a table, Chen kicked
the table into a sergeant serving as an interpreter, knocking him to the
floor.
Chen then used his free hand to punch a detective, the source said.
He was charged with one count of first-degree murder, four counts of second-
degree murder, two counts of second-degree assault, five counts of fourth-
degree criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest.
Chen looked calm and said nothing as he was walked out of the station house
Sunday evening.
A distraught cousin of the dead mom recalled having met Chen when he lived
with the victims’ family in the past and said Chen had worked as a cook but
couldn’t hold down a job.
“He’s lazy. He doesn’t work too hard,” Gao Yun, 29, said after stumbling
upon the crime scene Sunday and breaking down in sobs when cops told her
what had happened.
Yun said Chen most recently was working at a restaurant in another state but
had been fired about two weeks ago.
“The guy is crazy,” Yun added, twirling her index finger next to her right
temple.
Banks said Chen has been “bouncing around” since entering the United
States in 2004, first living for a time in Chinatown in Manhattan before
moving to Chicago.
At some point, he returned to New York and was living with Li’s family for
eight to 10 days before the carnage, Banks said.
Chen has no known history of mental illness and no arrest record in New York
City, Banks said, adding that cops were checking to see whether he has ever
been busted elsewhere in the country. |
