16-year-old busted in murder of woman during robbery of husband on Lower East Side

A 16-year-old lad has been arrested for the execution of a 57-year-old pistillate fatally changeable during the robbery of her hubby extracurricular their flat on the Lower East Side, constabulary said Friday.

The teen was grabbed for the Sept. 9 shooting inside unfortunate Ying Zhu Liu’s flat building connected Market St. adjacent Madison St., cops said.

Investigators arrested the teen connected Thursday, charging him with murder, robbery, burglary, and weapons possession. The teen’s sanction wasn’t released due to the fact that of his age.

It wasn’t instantly wide if helium was the 1 who changeable Liu arsenic helium and his accomplice, who were some wearing skis masks, tried to rob Liu’s 61-year-old hubby conscionable steps from their flat astir 11 p.m.

Police astatine 44 Market Street wherever a 57-year-old pistillate was changeable and killed connected the Lower East Side erstwhile 2 crooks robbed a cellphone from her hubby connected Sept. 9, 2024. (Sam Costanza for the New York Daily News)

The brace followed Liu’s hubby into the gathering and onto the elevator where they jumped him.

The crooks and the hubby were locked successful a conflict erstwhile the elevator stopped connected the eighth floor, wherever helium lived with his wife.

“It was 1 shriek, past different shriek and past I heard a pop,” a shocked gathering nonmigratory who did not supply his sanction told the Daily News soon aft the killing. “Then I heard much commotion and yelling.”

Surveillance video shows the couple’s 31-year-old son, Lin Rong Yan, whom neighbors cognize arsenic Paul, joined the conflict erstwhile his dada reached the eighth floor.

A excavation of humor successful the hallway of the Market St. flat gathering wherever Ying Zhu Liu was fatally changeable during an equipped robbery connected Sept. 9. (Colin Mixon for New York Daily News)

“Paul came out,” the neighbour said. “Paul and his begetter were scuffling with them.”

Father and lad forced the robbers to the other extremity of the hallway from their flat and done a doorway starring into a stairwell, said the neighbor. After they went done the door, Liu tin beryllium seen connected video moving down the hallway from the absorption of their unit. She entered the stairwell doorway and past moments aboriginal collapsed done it, said the neighbor.

“They spell successful the stairwell and you don’t cognize what’s going on, but you spot the parent moving out. … She runs retired and past a fewer seconds aboriginal she conscionable drops to the floor. Her caput cracked connected the floor,” the neighbour said.

“She indispensable person seen what was going on,” helium added. “That indispensable person been the screams I heard — due to the fact that the popular was close aft the screams.”

A 57-year-old pistillate was changeable connected the Lower East Side erstwhile 2 crooks robbed a compartment telephone from her husband, constabulary said. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)

Liu was changeable successful the close feature by 1 of the muggers and died astatine the scene, said police.

The begetter and lad were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Lower Manhattan for wounds they suffered successful the combat with the robbers.

The household came from Fuzhou successful China 10 years ago, and the begetter is simply a retired edifice worker, the person said.

“I don’t privation to speech astir it,” the lad said arsenic helium and his dada were released from the hospital. “It’s difficult. My ma was a bully woman.”

Ying Zhu Liu was killed aft her hubby was followed into the couple’s gathering connected Market St. adjacent Madison St. by the brace of muggers, some wearing skis masks, and onto the elevator astir 11 p.m. connected Sept. 9, cops said.. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)

A azygous ammunition casing was recovered successful the stairwell. The slayer crooks ran disconnected with the husband’s compartment telephone and $100, constabulary said.

One fishy was wearing a half-red, half-black hoodie, acheronian sweatpants with a achromatic stripe down the side, and a skis mask, constabulary said. The different was wearing a achromatic hoodie, achromatic pants, black-and-white sneakers, and a achromatic skis mask.

It was not instantly disclosed however cops zeroed successful connected the teen, who was arrested without incident. The teen’s arraignment was pending successful Manhattan Criminal Court.

His accomplice remained astatine ample Friday.