Wu Long Chen fired the gun until it jammed, threw it to the ground and fled the scene to Texas, prosecutors said.
A Manhattan man was convicted Tuesday for shooting an elderly man to death stemming from a 20-year-old feud that started in a small village in China.
After a wedding in Bay Ridge on Dec. 7,2015, Wu Long Chen recognized Ying Guan Chen, the father of his former neighbor in China.
Wu Long Chen and Ying Guan Chen’s son had heated arguments decades ago in China over construction that interrupted each other’s property, according to trial testimony.
„The defendant harbored a grudge … and since he couldn’t find the victim’s sons he sought retribution by killing the victim instead, even though he had no involvement in the dispute, ” the DA’s office said in a news release issued on Wednesday.
Wu Long Chen, 46, was seen on surveillance video following 68-year-old Ying Guan Chen on Seventh Ave. and 61st St. where the older man was shot in the head, chest and arm.
Wu Long Chen fired the gun until it jammed, threw it to the ground and fled the scene to Texas, prosecutors said.
Ying Guan Chen’s bloody body walked into a nearby Popeye’s Chicken restaurant where he collapsed and ultimately died at Lutheran Medical Center.
Wu Long Chen was captured three weeks later trying to jump the border to Mexico.
He faces up 25 years to life in prison at his sentencing on July 17.
