A man tried to woo a sushi joint cashier by showing off his “huge gun” — a .45 caliber pistol — but ended up with a court date instead, police and witnesses said.
Kai Ting Yin, 36, went to Snowfox on Wednesday afternoon to flirt with the cashier after their date the night before didn’t go so well, the restaurant’s manager Jae Jung told The Post.
“He was talking to our employee, the cashier. He pull out the gun. He kept standing around over there [in front of the cashier] showing her the gun, like ‘this is what I have.’ It was a .45, a huge gun,” Jung said.
“She tell me ‘I hang out with him last night’… She say there is something not really normal with him. She say she did not want to hang out with him again.”
Jung walked to the front of the store to protect the cashier when he saw Yin brandishing the gun.
“This is my responsibility to protect my employee. I’m thinking maybe I’m gonna die, maybe it’s not gonna be my day today.”
Luckily, just as Jung came over, a police officer also walked in, who’d notice Yin inside with the gun.
“She saw him with the gun from the window. She was like ‘why are you carrying the gun?’” Jung said.
Police sources said Yin started trying to talk his way out of it, claiming he was a “special agent” and on the same side as them. He had the gun holstered to his hip and was also wearing a bullet proof vest.
Jung said the police officer took him outside, took off the vest and arrested him. When police searched his car, they found a mini-arsenal — including an AR15 assault rifle, 169 rounds in six magazine clips, 20 additional .45 caliber rounds and two extended magazines.
When cops brought him back to his holding cell, he was frantically screaming and yelling. They later brought him to an area hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Jung said Yin is a regular in the store and usually appears very normal.
“He comes here for lunch. He just seems really normal, casual. Normally, he get the noodles and sushi,” Jong said.
“He told one of the employees I will be coming tomorrow for lunch.”
Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fonrouge