HITMAN HEADED FOR HONG KONG SNATCHED OFF JFK JET JUST BEFORE TAKEOFF

The scene at 83 Henry St. where the bodies were found. Victims Xiao L. Li, 70 and  36-year-old Yong Hua Chen are believed to be connected to the slave trade.

An alleged gangster suspected of fatally shooting two women in a Chinatown apartment last month was plucked off a Hong Kong-bound flight at JFK Airport yesterday, moments before the jet was to take off.
The man, whose name was withheld, was led off the Delta flight at 1:45 p.m. by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and NYPD and PAPD cops.
“He was already in his seat. The doors were closing and the jet was preparing to take off. As soon as this guy saw us, he knew he was had,” said a source.
The man was described by the source as a “hard-core gang member” with “tattoos on his hands and fingers.”

He’s being eyed for the slayings of Xiao L. Li, 70, and Yong Hua Chen, 36, who were found dead inside a burning Henry Street apartment on June 29.

Both women had been shot in the head before the apartment was set ablaze.
The suspect’s decision to bolt — he was headed to Hong Kong, where, the source said, he may have planned to continue on to Beijing — might have been prompted by a Saturday incident in which he witnessed officials impounding his car parked on a Chinatown street.
The source noted that there wasn’t yet enough evidence to charge the man with the slayings, but he would remain in custody on an unrelated charge while the probe continues.