‘They looked so nice’: What we know about Ashley Zhao’s parentshttp://www.cantonrep.com/news/20170122/they-looked-so-nice-what-we-know-about-ashley-zhaos-parentsJACKSON TWP. The lights inside Ang’s Asian Cuisine remained on last week.
Menus were stacked neatly on the counter. Tables were set with bottles of soy sauce and salt-and-pepper shakers. The tip jar waited expectantly on the counter.
Nothing inside the restaurant hinted that it had closed a week earlier, after police found the body of 5-year-old Ashley Zhao, the owners’ daughter, hidden inside.
Liang J. Zhao, 34, and Mingming Chen, 29, reported their daughter missing Jan. 9, prompting an overnight search by Jackson Township police that ended with the discovery of Ashley’s body and the arrest of her parents the following day.
The family’s neighbors, customers and the wider community have struggled to reconcile those allegations with the hardworking entrepreneurs and parents Zhao and Chen appeared to be.
“They looked so nice,” said Kirk Klusty, who lived in the same apartment building as Zhao, Chen and their daughters. “They seemed like good people.”