Who Needs Chopsticks When You Have a Gun?

More about the shocking shooting at the Chopsticks and Sushi restaurant which was frequented by many an ACME worker including yours truly.

A businessman facing murder charges stemming from a shooting in his restaurant on the 16th Street Mall told investigators he shot the victim in self-defense after being choked.

But an affidavit in the case says a witness gave a different story, that the restaurant owner was confronted over money he owed.

Yan De Yang, 40, owner of the Chopsticks & Sushi restaurant, 1630 Welton St., is being held without bond at the Denver jail on suspicion of first-degree murder.
Yang is charged with fatally shooting 29-year-old Lloyd Running Bear at the downtown eatery Thursday.

Running Bear was shot multiple times in the chest, according to an affidavit in the case.

Yang, who goes by the first name of "Dave," told investigators that he kicked an "intoxicated" man out of the sushi bar on Friday, Oct. 16 and that the man came back on Wednesday with two others, looking for him and making threats of reprisals, according to the affidavit.