If only his wife had listened to him, he wouldn’t have had hit her in the head with a cleaver, a crazed husband told cops after his arrest in a bloody attack on a Canal Street sidewalk.
“If she was listening to me, I wouldn’t have used it,” Ming Guang Huang confessed of his cleaver, according to police statements released after he pleaded not guilty through a Mandarin interpreter in Manhattan Supreme Court today to the attempted murder of his 23-year-old wife.
“Just kill me now!” he had railed within an hour of the attack, according to the statements. “Do me a favor,” he told cops. “Take me to a bridge and toss me off.”
Huang appeared disheveled and vacant-eyed as he sat at a defense table today, rear cuffed in his orange jail jumpsuit.
Assistant district attorney Steven Nuzzi said victim Jinyia You suffered 17 cleaver blows to the head and upper body, and spent a month in the hospital before being released last week, still suffering severe neurological damage.
In his police statements, Huang intimated that his wife was cheating on him, that their marriage was “only for citizenship” and that she wanted a divorce. “How’s my wife?” he asked repeatedly.
Prosecutors have said that the attack was captured on Canal Street surveillance camera, and that she survived only because hero firefighters from the firehouse across the street saw the attack and wrestled the cleaver from Huang’s hands. He remains jailed without bail and returns to court June 12.