Crime & Safety
Brooklyn Wedding Guest Gets Shot, Bleeds Out in Nearby Popeyes: Report
Yingguan Chen's suspected killer was reportedly wearing a black trenchcoat and a pink hat.
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SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — Brooklyn cops said they found Yingguan Chen, a 68-year-old Bensonhurst resident, dying outside the Popeye’s fried-chicken restaurant at 7th Avenue and 61st Street in Sunset Park late Monday night. He was bleeding from bullet holes in his head, torso and right arm, police said.
Chen was declared dead soon after at the nearby Lutheran Medical Center.
The bizarre events leading up to Chen’s death were later revealed in a New York Daily News story based on information from “police sources.”
Chen had reportedly attended a wedding earlier in the night at the Golden Imperial Palace, a Chinese restaurant and event space a couple blocks away.
When Chen left the wedding, the Daily News reported, he was chased down 61st Street and shot three times by a mysterious gunman — later revealed in surveillance video to be ”wearing a black trenchcoat and pink hat” and carrying a .22-caliber pistol.
The NYPD’s public-information office could not confirm these details to Patch.
A police spokesman did say, however, that Chen entered the Popeyes on 7th Avenue after he got shot. “That’s when he started calling out for help,” she said.
Photos taken at the Popeyes by New York Daily News photographer Todd Maisel show Chen’s bloody handprint still on the front door handle.
A manager at the restaurant, who refused to give his name, told the Daily News that one of his employees witnessed Chen yelling, “Somebody help me! Call the police! Call the police!”
The manager said: “One of the customers ran over to the counter and grabbed a bunch of napkins. He was telling the guy, ‘Sit down! Sit down!’”
Chen also reportedly told Popeyes workers in Mandarin that he was “going to die.”
An employee at the 7th Avenue Popeyes location, reached by phone, refused to say whether she’d seen Chen stumble in Monday.
According to the Daily News, Chen’s wife told NYPD investigators that she had no idea why someone would want to kill her husband.
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