Chicago man, 61, in coma after beaten, robbed, left unconscious on Chinatown street

Jin Lew was discovered final Thursday close to twenty fifth Place and Princeton. Now, he’s in a hospital after being so badly crushed his face is sort of unrecognizable.

“He already had a number of mind surgical procedures. They needed to do a craniotomy to decompress the mind due to mind bleeding,” stated Dr. Kim Yee, the spokesperson for the household.

The household stated they had been unable to trace down their father after he was final seen leaving his son’s South Loop constructing final Wednesday night time.

His two grown sons filed a lacking particular person’s report Friday morning and posted their plea along with his image throughout social media.

One thing within the image seemed acquainted.

“One of many viewers who work on the hospital ICU type of acknowledged and linked to the household,” Tee stated.

Lew had been laying there, unidentified for greater than a day at that time.

Final Thursday morning, his household stated a road sweeper discovered the 61-year-old crushed and unconscious on a Chinatown block.

A person who lives proper there, an previous pal of Lew, had no concept what occurred to his pal proper exterior his entrance door. He stated the 2, each retired cooks, used to share tea most mornings in Chinatown.

Lew, he stated, is well-respected within the Chinatown restaurant neighborhood that is now afraid of more and more violent crime.

“The neighborhood is scared. A number of residents come to me, discuss to me. They’re afraid to only be doing this, standing out right here,” stated Tom Lam, CAPS facilitator for Chinatown.