Suspect Wanted For Double Homicide In Flushing

Mugshot of Sai Chun Lam. Photo courtesy of NYPD.

By Christina Carrega

The NYPD is looking for a 52-year-old man in connection to the deaths of a Flushing couple.

On Wednesday, police were called to 144-55 37th Ave. where the bodies of Deyu Zhal and Chunfu Lui for found unconscious and unresponsive.

Lui, 67 and Zhal, 64, were found with multiple stab wounds to the chest and pronounced dead on the scene inside their second-floor apartment, police said.

Police are looking for Sai Chun Lam who is described as an Asian man, approximately 5-foot 7 and 200 pounds.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crimestoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577."