Brooklyn butcher is a Chinese illegal alien
Ming Dong Chen, 25, entered the United States in 2004 and lived in Manhattan’s Chinatown before moving to Chicago at some point, NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks III told reporters during an afternoon news conference in Queens.
Chen returned to New York and had been living with his alleged victims in their Sunset Park apartment for eight to ten days before Saturday night’s bloodbath, Banks said.
Jealous butcher killed mom, 4 kids because they had ‘too much’
The maniac who butchered a Brooklyn mom and her four young kids confessed that he did it because he was jealous of their way of life, a police source told The Post on Sunday.
“The family had too much. Their income (and) lifestyle was better than his,” the source said.
The bloody suspect was caught holding the kitchen knife he used during the Saturday night rampage inside the Sunset Park apartment where he had been staying with the victims, the source added.
Ming Dong Chen, 25, an illegal alien from China, was nabbed as he fled out the front door by two detectives who happened to be investigating a robbery pattern nearby when they heard a radio report about a domestic dispute involving a knife and responded to the scene, the source said.
Inside, cops found a house of horrors in which all five victims were hacked to death and one — a 1-year-old boy — was decapitated, the source said.