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They had “too much.”
The maniac who butchered a Brooklyn mom and her four young kids confessed that he did it because he was jealous of their way of life, a police source told The Post on Sunday.
“The family had too much. Their income (and) lifestyle was better than his,” the source said.
The bloody suspect was caught holding the kitchen knife he used during the Saturday night rampage inside the Sunset Park apartment where he had been staying with the victims, the source added.
Ming Dong Chen, 25, an illegal alien from China, was nabbed as he fled out the front door by two detectives who happened to be investigating a robbery pattern nearby when they heard a radio report about a domestic dispute involving a knife and responded to the scene, the source said.
Inside, cops found a house of horrors in which all five victims were hacked to death and one — a 1-year-old boy — was decapitated, the source said.
The as-yet unidentified suspect is a cousin of the dead woman’s husband and a transient with a Chicago address who arrived at their home about a week ago, police sources said.
He showed “no remorse” when he confessed both on video and in writing, a source said.
But he became violent at one point during questioning at the 66th Precinct station house, punching a detective while cuffed to a table by one of his hands, a source said.
Earlier, he also threw a pair of eyeglasses at a sergeant who serves as a Chinese-language interpreter, then kicked the table and knocked the sergeant to the ground, the source said.
Police have identified the victims as mother Qiao Zhen Li, 37, and her children: William Zhuo, 1; Kevin Zhuo, 5; Amy Zhuo, 7; and Linda Zhuo, 9.
The mom’s sister “walked into the apartment while it was all going on and ran out and called 911,” another source said.
A distraught cousin of the dead mom said she had met the suspect in the past, describing him as a “crazy” man who works as a cook who can’t hold down a job and had lived on and off with the victims in the past.
“He’s lazy. He doesn’t work too hard,” Gao Yun, 29, said after stumbling on the crime scene Sunday morning and breaking down in sobs after learning about the Saturday night bloodbath.
“The guy is crazy,” Yun added, twirling her index finger next to her right temple.
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