The NYPD is looking for a suspect who assaulted a woman in broad daylight on a Chelsea street. According to police, at 8:50 a.m. on April 24 a 68-year-old Asian woman was crossing the street in the vicinity of 9th Avenue and West 19th Street when she was approached by an unknown man. The man proceeded to punch the victim in the torso, causing her to fall to the ground. The suspect then fled the scene on foot. The victim suffered back pain and bruised ribs and was transported in stable condition to Lenox Health Greenwich Village Hospital. The NYPD released photos and a video of the suspect walking on Wet 21st Street shortly before the assault. The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.
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A stranger randomly slugged an Asian woman in a shocking caught-on-video attack in Chelsea that is being investigated as a possible hate crime, cops said.
The 68-year-old victim was crossing the street at the intersection of Ninth Avenue and West 19th Street around 8:50 a.m. April 24 when the male attacker suddenly comes up behind her, footage released early Monday shows.
The woman then runs back in the other direction, holding her arm out in an attempt to keep the assailant away, before the brute chases her and punches her in the torso — knocking her to the ground in the middle of the street, the clip shows.
The man suspected of randomly slugging an Asian woman.NYPDThe woman ran back in the other direction, holding her arm out in an attempt to keep the assailant away.NYPDThe suspect, who didn’t say a word during the attack, ran off.NYPDThe brute chased her and punched her in the torso — knocking her to the ground in the middle of the street.NYPD
The suspect, who didn’t say a word during the attack, ran off, police said.
The victim was taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village Hospital with bruised ribs and back pain, cops said.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the crime.
Police were still looking for the assailant Monday morning.
A Chinese food delivery worker described by loved ones as a hardworking father was fatally shot in Queens on Saturday night.
Zhiwen Yan, 45, was making a delivery near 108th St. and 67th Dr. in the neighborhood of Forest Hills at around 9:30 p.m. when a man began firing shots in his direction, according to police.
A bullet hit Yan’s chest, and he fell off his scooter. Medics brought him to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The shooter reportedly fled in a light gray or tan sedan toward Queens Blvd. As per the New York Post, police are investigating a 50-year-old customer who has several ongoing disputes with staff members at Great Wall restaurant, where Yan worked.
The customer has been accused of threatening the employees with a gun in January and vandalizing their vehicles twice. An employee claimed that after one of the incidents, the customer fled in an older model of a Lexus RX3 SUV, which was the same vehicle present during Saturday’s shooting.
Yan, who arrived in the U.S. in 2001, leaves a wife and three children — aged 2, 12 and 14 — behind. He juggled three jobs before his death.
“My husband wakes up every day and just works,” said Kunying Zhao, who also goes by Eva, told the New York Daily News.
Yan’s nephew, Michael, called the shooting a “brutal murder.”
“It’s unacceptable that this happened. This is a very peaceful community. This never happened, this kind of issue,” Michael told the New York Post.
A small memorial was held for Yan at Great Wall on Sunday. Residents of Forest Hill called Yan a “fixture” of the neighborhood.
“Anytime you'd pass he'd say ‘hello my friend,’” Philip Jacoby told Spectrum News NY1. “Snow, rain, hurricane he was out delivering. He was the nicest guy. Hardest-working guy in the neighborhood.”
“He was the heart of Forest Hills to so many,” Matthew Murray told FOX 5 NY. “He was the hardest worker. He was always out on Queens Boulevard, he would always say hi to you. He would say ‘Hi my friend’ to you.”
Yan’s death came less than a day after Mayor Eric Adams met with top police officials to discuss solutions to address violent incidents in the city.
Zhao set up a GoFundMe page for her husband on Sunday. So far, it has raised over $45,000.
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.
Zhiwen Yan was shot and killed while making a food delivery in Forest Hills, Queens on April 30, 2022.Robert Mecea
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.
NYPD at the scene of the fatal Queens shooting.Robert MeceaRep. Grace Meng comforts Yan’s wife, Eva Zhao, while a relative holds on to the couple’s daughter in the doorway.Ellis Kaplan
“He came here in 2001,” he said. “He has been in this country over 20 years. I would like to know why this murder took place. I would like to find out the truth and get justice. This was a brutal murder.”
“It’s unacceptable that this happened,” Michael added. “This is a very peaceful community. This never happened, this kind of issue.”
Yan’s grief-stricken widow, Eva Zhao, burst into tears after coming out from the home — the couple’s young daughter in the doorway behind her.
Yan Zhiwen and his wife Eva Chao on their wedding day.Zhiwen Yan, 45, was on his scooter when he was shot in the chest Saturday night.
Yan, of Queens, was found unconscious at the scene after police responded to a 911 call, and rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, according to police.
He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
According to a GoFundMe pageposted on Sunday for Yan’s three children, the shooting was “a random act of road rage” while he was on a delivery run for Chinese restaurant Great Wall.
The scooter Yan was riding when he was shot while making a delivery.Robert Mecea
Sooi Chung, Zhiwen’s co-worker at Great Wall, said that an irate customer had been harassing employees for months.
“He slashed the boss’s tires one time. And one night, in December or January, he pulled a gun on my boss,” Chung said. “We reported him to the police, and he stopped bothering us.”
A memorial began to grow outside the restaurant, which was closed Sunday, with mourners leaving flowers outside.
“He still had the order with him,” Sooi Chung, 70, who worked with Yan at the restaurant, told The Post. “When he got shot, the police found the bag with the food with our menu inside.”
“We are very sad,” Chung said. “Everybody liked him. We just don’t know what happened to him. He died young.”
Witnesses told cops a Lexus was seen fleeing the scene, sources said.Robert Mecea
Witnesses told cops a Lexus was seen fleeing the scene, sources told The Post.
“He was super nice and worked so hard,” former neighbor Yang Pan, 20, said of the slain man on Sunday. “I would never see him not working.
“When I talked to him he was always nice and he laughed,” said Pan, who lived in the same Elmhurst building as Yan until his family moved.
“I felt like I had a heart attack when I heard he died. I can’t believe this,” she added. “It’s just so sad. I’m heartbroken.”
Outside Yan’s home, Rep. Grace Meng, a Queens Democrat, joined several community activists and called the fatal shooting “unnerving.”
Yan was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead.Robert Mecea
“It’s my district. They are my neighbors,” Meng said. “People are terrified that this could happen in the middle of a relatively safe neighborhood in Queens. And so people are really scared.”
In a statement, City Councilwoman Lynn Schulman denounced the slaying.
“This incident has sent shock waves across our neighborhood, which is considered one of the safest in Queens,” the statement said. “The fact is gun violence is an epidemic in our country and it has touched on every corner.”
Zhiwen Yan is pictured in this undated photo.
Yan migrated from China more than 20 years ago and delivers for the eatery seven days a week, the GoFundMe page said.
The page had raised more than $36,000 by Sunday evening and has a goal of $100,000.
Cops are now scouring the neighborhood for surveillance footage of the shooting.
A 14-year-old girl who police believe was an innocent bystander was shot in the neck when a gunman opened fire on two other teenagers in Queens on Wednesday, cops and law enforcement sources said.
The shooter got out of one of two cars that pulled up alongside a group of people walking near 64-50 188 Street in Fresh Meadows and opened fire on two 18-year-old men at about 4:10 p.m., police and sources said.
The girl was hit in the neck, one of the men was hit in the hip and the other was shot in the leg, sources said. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening.
The girl isn’t believed to have been an intended target, but the shooting is still under investigation, the sources added.
The three victims were among a group of about a dozen people walking on the sidewalk before the shooting, police said.
The 14-year-old was taken to Long Island Jewish Hospital in critical but stable condition, police said.
Both men, who had initially fled to other locations after being shot, were taken to New York Presbyterian Queens, police said. They were also listed in stable condition.
The vehicles fled the scene and no arrests were immediately made.
Neighbor Ron, 53, said he heard arguing before the gunshots rang out.
“I hear the yelling and the screaming: ‘Yo, I’m right here! I’m right here!’” he said.
Police believe the girl was an innocent bystander.ellis kaplan
“Then pop, pop, pop, pop.” The victim was left “on her back, not moving,” he added.
Antoine was driving by as he saw two groups of teenagers “arguing back and forth.”
“I just saw the crowd and then the gunshots,” he said. “One of them had a BMW, the BMW was double parked while they were going at it and after that the BMW left the scene – I did not see but I heard the sound of the engine.”
Vincent Hurtado, who lives a block away from the shooting, said he saw the terrified girl after the shooting. He had heard the shots ring out and told his kids to come inside, he told The Post.
“I saw a lady outside a car and she was crying hysterical and she said, ‘Oh my God, a girl got shot,’” Hurtado, 47, said.
“I saw her on the floor, she couldn’t move, she was in shock … her eyes were blinking, scared to death, I was on the phone looking at the girl calling 911. I told one of her friends to keep talking to her until the ambulance came.”
The girl was taken to Long Island Jewish Hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.ellis kaplan
But the girl wasn’t talking and looked as if she was “about to pass out,” he added.
“This is the worst. I’ve seen shootings out here in New York but this takes the cake,” Hurtado said. “This has never happened here. I’ve been living here almost 40 years.”
never really felt that being Chinese-Filipino was any different from being a pure-blooded Filipino. I call the Philippines my motherland; I respect, more than any other, the Philippine flag; I memorize both the Panatang Makabayanand national anthem by heart; I speak Filipino as well as any other fellow Juan; I love eating sinigang and lechon; and I have always embraced our polluted, traffic-choked, sweltering Metro Manila streets as home.
But recently, I found this notion crumbling whenever I would see fellow Filipinos, whom I have always considered family, treating each and every Chinese national (including those originally from the Philippines) with disgust and prejudice because of the sudden mass outbreak of the novel coronavirus (nCoV). Indeed, the virus originated from the city of Wuhan in China, but China being ground zero for the virus has resulted in numerous adverse effects for all of its citizens, the most rampant of which is (extreme) xenophobia.
University lecturer is charged with 'brutally' killing his wife - a young mother - as detectives comb through the 'extremely graphic, bloodstained scene'
Adam Brown, 40, has been charged with the murder of his wife Chen Cheng, 35
Police and paramedics were called to townhouse in Croydon North on Saturday
Ms Cheng, a young mother, was found with critical injuries and died at the scene
Brown is a senior lecturer in Arts and Education at Melbourne's Deakin University
Forensic teams were seen removing bags of bloodstained evidence from home
Video shows the couple laughing together on an amusement park ride
PUBLISHED:05:14 EDT, 2 May 2022|UPDATED:12:55 EDT, 2 May 2022
A university lecturer has been charged with the brutal killing of his young wife as detectives scour the couple's bloodstained home for clues.
Adam Brown, a Deakin University lecturer from Croydon North inMelbourne, is alleged to have stabbed Chen Cheng, 35, at their home on Saturday night.
The 40-year-old was charged by homicide detectives on Monday afternoon and appeared for a brief hearing in court via video-link later that day where his lawyer Nick Tehan revealed his client had never been in custody before.
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Phe circumstances surrounding young mother's death are still widely unknown with no details of the alleged murder aired in the court room.
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Adam Brown, a Deakin University lecturer from Croydon North in Melbourne, has been accused of murdering his wife Chen Cheng, 35, inside their home. Pictured is the couple
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The 40-year-old lecturer (pictured) was charged by homicide detectives on Monday afternoon
Emergency services were called to a Patrick Avenue address, in the city's northeast, at about 10.15pm on Saturday night.
It's understood forensic officers were met with an 'extremely graphic' scene with specialist cleaners seen arriving at the home on Monday, theHerald Sun reports.
Bags of bloodstained evidence were removed from the two-storey townhouse as detectives combed the property for clues.
Bags of children's toys were also taken from the scene.
A neighbour reportedly gave the mother-of-two CPR for 15 minutes before paramedics arrived but was unable to revive her.
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Ms Cheng (pictured) married Dr Brown in China in 2017 with the couple going on to have two young children
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Emergency services were called to the couple's Patrick Avenue address, in the city's northeast, at about 10.15pm on Saturday night
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Bags of bloodstained evidence were removed from the two-storey townhouse on Monday (pictured is the couple's wedding)
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A neighbour reportedly gave the young mother (pictured) CPR for 15 minutes before paramedics arrived but was ultimately unable to revive her
'Paramedics worked on a woman found with critical injuries,' a police spokesperson said on Sunday.
A shocked resident said she knew the man in custody to be 'nice and normal' and described the family as 'quiet'.
Neighbours previously recalled hearing a woman scream, with one saying they had mistaken the commotion for animals screeching in the night.
Daniel Woodrow who lives nearby said he was shocked to stumble across the police presence on the normally quiet street during his morning walk.
'I got woken up last night, I got out of bed — I actually thought it might’ve been a cat trying to kill a possum, there was a human element to it,' he said.
It's understood forensic officers were met with an 'extremely graphic' scene with specialist cleaners seen arriving at the home on Monday. Picture is police at the scene
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Shell-shocked neighbours have described the family as 'quiet' and Dr Brown (pictured with Ms Cheng) as 'nice and normal'
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Dr Brown (pictured) is a senior lecturer in media and communications
Dr Brown is a senior lecturer in media and communications and has a doctorate in Philosophy.
He married Ms Cheng in China in 2017, and the couple went on to have two young children together.
Video he shared on Twitter less than two weeks before his wife's death, he records the couple on an amusement park ride called 'The Slingshot'.
The lecturer is heard asking his giggling wife if she feels out of her comfort zone who simply replies: 'This is nice'.
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The lecturer (pictured at his wedding to Ms Cheng) is an avid social media user
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'Paramedics worked on a woman found with critical injuries,' a police spokesperson said on Sunday. Pictured is Chen Cheng.
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On International Woman's Day in March last year, Brown (pictured) posted a gushing tribute to his 'strong, creative and hilarious' wife to Instagram
On International Woman's Day last March, Dr Brown posted a gushing tribute to his 'strong, creative and hilarious' wife on Instagram.
He said Ms Cheng made him 'laugh every day' while keeping him sane and ensuring he was 'on time with everything'.
Meanwhile, flowers have been laid outside the North Croydon home, which has been cordoned off from the public as investigations continue.
No application for bail was made during Dr Brown's brief court appearance on Monday, which heard Ms Cheng's family had been notified of her death.
The magistrate has asked prosecutors to present a brief of evidence by August with the accused to remain in custody to return to court in September.
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In chilling video the lecturer shared to Twitter just two weeks before his wife's death, the couple are pictured on an amusement park ride called 'The Slingshot'
