Killing of Chinese food deliveryman may have stemmed from duck sauce dispute

 – Free Yemen Eye

New York POST

He may have been killed in a simmering beef over duck sauce.

The owner of the Chinese restaurant whose food deliveryman was fatally shot in Forest Hills told The Post on Monday that the disgruntled customer now sought for questioning in the slaying had previously been in a rage over the amount of duck sauce he got with an order.

Cops eye angry customer in fatal shooting of Chinese food delivery man: sources

A hard-working Chinese food delivery man was shot and killed while on the clock in Queens Saturday night — and now cops are probing whether the gunman is a disgruntled customer who had “multiple disputes” with the restaurant over his orders, sources told The Post.

Zhiwen Yan, 45, was on his scooter and making a delivery near 108th Street and 67th Drive in Forest Hills around 9:30 p.m. when he was blasted once in the chest and mortally wounded, police said on Sunday.

Sources said cops are now eying a 50-year-old customer who has an ongoing beef with staff at Great Wall on Queens Boulevard, allegedly menacing them with a gun in January and twice vandalizing their vehicles.

One witness told police the angry customer drove off from the Forest Hills restaurant in an older model Lexus RX3 SUV after one encounter — the same type of vehicle spotted fleeing the scene of Saturday’s shooting, the sources said.

No arrests have been made in the case.

Yan leaves behind a wife and three kids, ages 2, 12 and 14.

“This was a father of three children working three jobs — all food delivery,” the dead man’s nephew, who identified himself as Michael, said outside the family’s home in Middle Village on Sunday.