‘DUCK SAUCE’ SUICIDE
Qns. delivery man’s bailed ‘killer’ shoots self
The so-called “Duck Sauce Killer” who was facing trial for gunning down a Chinese-food delivery man in Queens committed suicide Friday ahead of a court hearing that could have landed him back behind bars.
Glenn Hirsch — finally unmasked in a mug shot obtained by The Post — was out on bail when he shot himself at home ahead of a morning hearing in Queens Supreme Court, law enforcement sources said.
The 51-year-old suspect was found dead on the couch wearing rubber gloves with the gun in his hand and the radio blaring to the point where it could be heard by cops outside the door, sources said.
It appeared he had meticulously prepared to kill himself, sources said. He put plastic over the couch, and a typewritten suicide note several pages long lay at his feet, sources said.
Hirsch had emailed the note to his lawyers, prosecutors and others involved in the case, denying murdering Zhiwen Yan on April 30 amid the suspect’s feud with the restaurant over duck sauce.
“This is my dying declaration,’’ Hirsch wrote, according to a source.
His lawyer, Michael Horn, told The Post, “He left a long note, but essentially, he became overwhelmed by the press coverage and the media attention and the rush to vilification, and he didn’t take care of his mental health, which is obviously something he needed to do, and he became depressed and suicidal.’’ In the missive, the suspect accused prosecutors of rushing to judgment in Yan’s murder and said video evidence implicating him in it was inconclusive. Hirsch also tried to exonerate his wife, Dorothy Hirsh, over her arrest in late June, when a raid turned up eight handguns and ammunition at her home. Glenn insisted in the letter that the weapons belonged to him and she had no knowledge of them, law enforcement sources said. The pair had not lived together for years, and she was not in his home when he died, sources said.
Glenn — who was freed from custody June 27 after his brother paid his $500,000 bail — wrote that he knew he was going to be charged with weapons raps during the Friday hearing and would likely be sent back to jail because the guns were linked to him through DNA.
‘How do I seek justice?’
Jennifer Wu, the lawyer for Yan’s kin, told The Post his family is in “shock” over Glenn’s suicide and that his widow “doesn’t even know what to say at this point.”
“I think there is the initial shock of, ‘How do I seek justice now?’ but that isn’t the primary concern,” Wu said. “The primary concern is another life is lost. It’s the shock of death.”
Additional reporting by Haley Brown