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Murder Victim's Husband: NYPD Could Have Saved My Wife
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Ben Muessig
Published Jan 29, 2010
Modified Jan 29, 2010
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The husband of a Queens woman who was killed and mutilated said police didn't do enough to protect his wife from a stalker who had harassed her for years. "Whatever happened before the murder, they could have handled better," said Yung Wei Guo, whose wife, Qian Wu, was found Tuesday stabbed, bludgeoned, and missing her heart and lungs. Police have arrested Huang Chen, who reportedly started threatening and intimidating Wu after he tried to find work through her employment agency, and after she turned down his romantic advances.
According to the Daily News, Guo didn't want to be overly critical of police because they did "an excellent job catching the murderer" and because he used to be a cop in China, but he couldn't figure out why police hadn't kept the suspect away from his wife, considering that she had numerous orders of protection against him (the tabloid says she sought and received six orders of protection against Chen in the past few years, though other reports indicate that nine had been issued). "In China, if someone is a repeat offender of an order of protection, they would be arrested right away," said Guo. "She didn't feel safe even though she went to [the police] repeatedly ... I even told her not to go out by herself, because she was afraid he would kill her."
The NYPD has declined to comment on Wu's complaint. Chen reportedly faced deportation proceedings after punching and choking Wu in 2006, but he was let out under supervised release and returned to New York. He is accused of striking Wu with a hammer 18 times, stabbing her repeatedly, and removing her organs. The tabloid notes he "displayed no emotion" when he was arraigned on counts of second-degree murder, stalking, criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence. Chen's landlady, 54-year-old Wenxin Zhang, was charged with helping the suspect cover up the crime, but she told cops: "I just threw the stuff out because the garbage was full and it was bloody and dirty ... He told me he got cut when he got robbed."
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