FAMILY BUTCHERED BY COUSIN KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS JEALOUS OF THEIR LIFESTYLE

Accused butcher Mingdong Chen was arraigned on charges of first- and second-degree murder Thursday after being hauled into Brooklyn Supreme Court in handcuffs and leg shackles.
“I know I am done,” Chen said to kin who discovered him, according to a criminal complaint.

Chen, 25, dressed in a navy-blue jogging suit, stared straight ahead and did not speak or enter a plea during the brief proceeding, during which Judge Jane Tully ordered the unemployed cook held without bail. His next court hearing is set for Friday.

Defense lawyer Danielle Eaddy noted that Chen’s forehead bore “two good-sized bruises that appear to have happened while he’s in custody.” She declined to comment afterward.

MINGDONG CHEN

Chen is accused of hacking to death his cousin’s wife and the couple’s four young children, just days after they took him in.

A neighbor of the Sunset Park family, Katrina He, 30, said she and her brother, Bruce, were once invited to the victims’ home for a party and described the slain kids as “cute.”

Bruce He, 27, said through a translator that the victims were “very nice.”

“She was a very good mother. Chinese style…get the kids up. Make the food,” he said of murdered mom Qiao Zhen Li, 37.

Also butchered during the bloodbath were children William Zhuo, 1; Amy Zhuo, 7; Kevin Zhuo, 5; and Linda Zhuo, 9.

Two of the kids — including little William — were decapitated, and several of Li’s fingers were chopped off when she tried to protect herself, according to sources.